Windows 10: Taskbar Icons

After updating Windows 10 "Features Updates" on May 9, 2018 any icon that I pin to the taskbar does not open the program. However, if I right click on the icon I can then select the program from the menu and open the program. Before the update I only had to single click on the taskbar icon to open the program.

Here is a message that I receive when single clicking a taskbar icon;

This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Apps Settings page.

Google Chrome and Firefox are two of the icons that fail to work as described. I tried creating an association but was unsuccessful.

Scratching my head now, help.

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Icons in taskbar disappeared; pinning same icon in taskbar now shows "icon (2)"

ok, maybe I'm not describing my problem correctly.

As far as I know, I have only one taskbar active.

I right click on an app & select 'pin to taskbar', it appears in the taskbar as 'Icon'.

I right click on the same app & select 'pin to taskbar', it appears in the taskbar as 'Icon(2)'.

Now I have two icons of the same app (Icon & Icon(2)).

In my situation, the first 'Icon' disappeared somehow & only 'Icon(2)' is visible.

I then unpin 'Icon(2)' from the taskbar.

I then right click on the same app & select 'pin to taskbar', BUT instead on 'Icon' appearing in the taskbar, 'Icon(2)' appears! This leads me to believe that 'Icon' is still pinned to the taskbar BUT not VISIBLE.

The question is how do I correct this?

 

Pin to taskbar

Just drag that icon from desktop to taskbar. It will pin it to taskbar by creating an icon on taskbar.