Is there a way to add calendar and contacts to a task bar launch box?

I've not been using my live contacts and calendar much, but, whilst udating my BlackBerry and setting the synchronisation settings, I had not realised that the 'Outlook Calendar' the BB software refers to is actually the Windows Live one.

My HP notebook had handy little 'launch boxes' on the task bar, one of which is for Live Essentials, but it only has Writer, Mail, MovieMaker, and photo Gallery on it.  It would be handy if I could launch my contacts and calendar from there as well, rather than having to wait for loads of mail to update.  Is there a way to add more of the 'essentials' components to this handy launch box and ribbon?

Many thanks, for any handy hints for quick accesss to calendar and contacts--as, indeed, I can do, on my phone, separately from the rest of the mail.

Cheers.