Windows 10: Taskbar items change instead of duplicating.

Hello friends!

I recently installed Windows on my new SSD and I am going crazy with my pinned Taskbar icons atm.My Taskbar icons used to be always minimized and if I opened Chrome for example it would create a new icon to the right of my "fixed" icons.

Now instead it does this:

https://preview.redd.it/tg61srlq41n...bp&s=fe183e5ec958848cbaa957156426c9ceec74317d

I want it to look like that tho:



https://preview.redd.it/v5kakxdf61n...bp&s=f77a390ca8b05a29ee5fc646547ba12040df2a2b

I hope it is clear what I mean.

Thanks for the help!

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Windows 10 problem with duplicated icons in taskbar, broken Jump Lists


Hello,


I‘ve been recently having a problem with duplicated items in taskbar and broken Jump Lists. I‘m now using Windows 10 but this problem occurred in Windows 8.1 too but then it somehow fixed itself. Some programs that I pin to taskbar have a tendency to duplicate themselves when clicked on. For now, I‘ve noticed this behaviour only in Skype and Spotify but it‘s still very annoying since duplicate icons take valuable taskbar space and even more—make Jump Lists of those programs broken, meaning that you can still see tasks program developers provided but after you click them nothing happens.


I‘ve tried loads of times pinning, repinning, deleting whole User Pinned folder from %appdata%/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch, clearing Jump List folders manually and automatically with Command Prompt commands as suggested here with no luck. The only thing I did achieve was when I pinned Skype to taskbar in my other user account, then copied the newly created shortcut from Use Pinned folder to my User Pinned folder—this made Skype Jump Lists working but duplicate icon in taskbar remained.


I‘ve recently found a tutorial which may force taskbar to use only one icon per app but I can‘t check this right now as 7+ Taskbar Tweaker isn‘t yet officially available for Windows 10 users.


Thank you for taking your time and reading my message, any suggestions would be appreciated,





P. S. I don‘t know if this is related but I can‘t pin any Control Panel item to Quick Access whilst I can pin folders. Interesting side of this is that pinned Control Panel items appear in File Explorer's Jump List but after clicked I get a message that item is unavailable and that it might have been moved, renamed or removed.

 

Broken/Duplicate Item in Start Menu

Thanks for providing us the outcome. We'd like to know if there are any changes that were made after trying the PowerShell command that was suggested. Have you encountered the same result?

Just in case that the duplicate app is still showing up, we suggest that you try running another command via Windows PowerShell to remove the app. Here are the steps:

• In the search box, type Windows PowerShell, right-click on it.
• Select Run as administrator.
• Type the following commands and press Enter:
  
  Get-appxpackage *netflix* | remove-appxpackage
  
  
• Close the window and check the result.

Let us know if you'll encounter any issues.

 

Duplicate Icon in Taskbar


Hi,

One of my pinned items on the taskbar (MusicBee) refuses to act properly. It always shows two instances of the icon when the program is open.

I tried unpinning the items, opening the program from it's folder and then right-click > Pin to taskbar but that creates a duplicate icon as well.

I also checked C:\Users\MYNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar for duplicate shortcuts but there is only one.

Any ideas?