Click on it and leave the left mouse button clicked. In the Address bar, you can see the icon of the website.

Open Internet Explorer 9 and navigate to the webpage you want to pin to the taskbar. NOTE: User Name is the actual name of the user account you are using. If you pin a website to the Start Menu, its shortcut file is found in the folder: 'C:UsersUser NameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedStartMenu' If you create a shortcut to a website in the Start Menu, its shortcut file is found in the folder: 'C:UsersUser NameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart Menu' When you pin a website to the taskbar, its shortcut file is found in the folder: 'C:UsersUser NameAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar' If anyone has more info on this I would happily still accept an answer. I set a different start page and now my pinned tabs are preserved.

When you pin a website, a shortcut (called Pinned Site Shortcut) file is created on your computer, with the extension. Normally my question wouldn't make sense, but I seem to have stumbled on one edge case where pinned tabs are lost - when your start page is set as a new tab and your new tabs are set as empty tabs. These shortcuts allow quick access to websites and also function as a home page. Pinned websites are simply shortcuts you create in Windows 7 to websites - as if they were files on your computer. The browser meant to store pinned tabs per device, but it updates local storage with current browser window's state before exit regardless, hence the pinned tabs might be overwritten if user opened. I guess this is a question many of you might ask.

Where did my pinned tabs go