Windows 10: Change taskbar icons of pinned programs

I'd like to change the icon of these icons, but I found no obvious way.




:)

 

Change taskbar icon?

You can change the icons for Pinned taskbar shortcuts from this folder:

%Appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

(Type that in Explorer address bar, or Run dialog.)

For Windows installer shortcuts the target can't be changed. In that case, you need to delete the existing shortcut and create a new shortcut for that program manually, and then Pin it to Taskbar.

 

Pinning programs to the taskbar

When I pin a program to the taskbar, it does it correctly and the icon is visible and clickable. However, when I click the icon to run the program, the program opens but two icons now become visible on the taskbar: the original pinned program and the
running program. It does this with Firefox, Musicbee, and almost all of the programs that I pin. Does anyone have a possible solution to this?

 

I'm wondering the same, I did the usual of right clicking on the icons, choosing properties then choosing change icon and am then shown that it can't "find" my google chrome program but clicking OK still lets me choose a new icon. However it doesn't actually change the icon on my desktop.

 

Thanks, I'm one bit further. I didn't realize I can right click the program name on the icon right click menu *Smile Same here, icon change is ignored.

 

There is some funky delay in changing icons on the taskbar. I'm not sure when mine changed, whether it was after a restart or maybe a sleep period or maybe just a period of time.

But it definitely changed: (I changed the Google Chrome icon)

 

I can confirm, it does change, I put my laptop to sleep and the next day it was updated *Smile