Windows 10: I just discovered something very odd about how Win10 deals with taskbar icons...

Discus and support I just discovered something very odd about how Win10 deals with taskbar icons... in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; In an attempt to re-icon all of my shortcuts on my desktop/taskbar to have a coherent theme, I decided to make my own icons for all my programs/games.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Tuckertcs, Jul 26, 2020.

  1. I just discovered something very odd about how Win10 deals with taskbar icons...


    In an attempt to re-icon all of my shortcuts on my desktop/taskbar to have a coherent theme, I decided to make my own icons for all my programs/games. I made sure my icons were pixel-perfect for everything from 16x16 to 256x256 so that no matter what size, it's made exactly rather than stretched.

    And well...the taskbar icons are 24x24 (a size I have in my icons) but I found out that the taskbar actually uses 32x32 icons then shrinks them. This is just crap...

    Edit: After further testing, I discovered that if an icon only supports a single size (24x24) it STILL will scale it up, then scale it back down, making it blurry. Ho-ly-fuck

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    /u/Tuckertcs, Jul 26, 2020
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  2. Yaqub K Win User

    System Icons on taskbar

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

    Are you referring to the clock system icon on the taskbar?

    If so, I suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below:


    • Click on the search bar on the taskbar.

    • Type system icons.

    • Under Turn System Icons ON or OFF, turn On the Clock and check with the issue.

    Hope it helps.
     
    Yaqub K, Jul 26, 2020
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  3. MCK
    mck Win User
    Cannot change desktop icon

    Sometimes a desktop icon changes from what it was to a plain white folder. Might be something I did but not sure what.

    To change it to the icon I want, I go:
    1. Rt-click icon > Properties > Change icon
    2. I select the icon I want from the thumbnails of icons.
    3. Click OK
    4. Click Apply
    But the icon does not change. It just stays looking like a white folder.
    HOWEVER, if I pin the icon to the taskbar, the icon on the taskbar does look like the icon I selected in step-2. So the change is registered with Win10 but the icon on the desktop just doesn't change.

    Any ideas on how to fix this?
     
  4. OzGaffer Win User

    I just discovered something very odd about how Win10 deals with taskbar icons...

    Can't copy from Win10 taskbar icon's recently used file list?

    Just noticed that in Win10 I don't have the option to copy a file from a taskbar icon's most recently used list, whereas I could in Win7.

    For Example, let's say you have Word pinned to the taskbar. I recently created a doc called HeyThere.doc. When I right click on the Word icon on the taskbar, I see HeyThere.doc in the most recently used file list for Word. In Win7, I could right click
    on HeyThere.doc and I'd have a "Copy" action available - in Windows 10 that is missing.

    Is there something I need to do to enable this extremely helpful shortcut or will I have to take the extra steps of opening the folder, finding the file that needs to be copied, and then selecting it from there? Hopefully it's the former and not the later.

    Thanks!
     
    OzGaffer, Jul 26, 2020
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