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cvalingam
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Jan 06, 2023

Windows 11 is not recognizing some icons on taskbar

  As you can see from the above pic, there are some unrecognized icons showing in the windows 11 taskbar. There are two apps that do not have recognizable icons one was Edge app and the other ...
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VSan86
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Dec 18, 2024

This worked for me with Windows 11 23H2

* Unpin the app from your taskbar.
* Search for the shortcut. For example, the start menu
* Right click and choose "Open File Location"
* Go to the shortcut and right click and choose "More Options"
* Choose "Create a Shortcut" make a shortcut to the desktop
* Go to your desktop and right click on the shortcut and choose "Properties"
* Choose "Change Icon"
* Select the icon again or if there are more icons available, choose another one and click ok and ok.
* Go back and do it again, this time with the right icon.
* The icon is now set on the desktop.
* Right click on the shortcut and choose "More Options" and select "Pin to Taskbar"

For example, I had this with Google Chrome and Chrome has more icons. The icons are recognizable as ICO files.

For Chrome there is 1 on location AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

But Chrome gets the icons from the executable if you see the location in step 7 so you can select it from there.

Try this. I hope it helps

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