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How to make Cygwin shortcut stick to Windows 7 dock

How to make Cygwin shortcut stick to Windows 7 dock

I have recently installed Cygwin on a Windows 7 beta machine. Everything works great, except one little annoyance:

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bert [Entry]

I just created a shortcut to "E:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i" on my desktop, ran that, and then pinned the resultant process to the task bar, and it seems to have worked.
bert [Entry]

"You should be able to make a shortcut on the desktop for your program, and then drag THAT shortcut to the taskbar.

Edit: After playing around, I was seeing the same issue.

However:

Windows 7 Center provides us with a way to ""pin any item to the taskbar"" using a registry hack."