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HotCakeX
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Nov 06, 2020

Problem with PWA icons on Start menu on Edge dev

When installing a website, such as Instagram, as PWA in Edge dev (Version 88.0.685.3), the Instagram icon appears in the apps list of Start menu, at the top under "recently added" list (not pinned ye...
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ddwashbu
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HotCakeX 

I've installed several PWAs using Edge Dev's "install this site as an app" feature. Several of the web sites aren't set up to support PWAs and show up in the Start Menu with either no icon at all or really crappy looking icons.

I'd like to change the icons so that they look decent but I've searched the internet and have not been able to find anything helpful. A lot of sites refer to the webappmanifest as including the icon info but I have no control over that. I've found the PWAs' folders under C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge Dev\User Data\Default\Web Applications and can see a bunch of .ico files, but changing them doesn't have any effect even after restarting Windows as if the icons are cached somewhere.

Do you know how I can change the Start Menu icons for PWAs installed using Edge Dev?

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HotCakeX
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Apr 22, 2021
Hi,
there are tools like TileIconifier (available on Github), I've used them before to modify app icons, both UWP and PWA.
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    ddwashbu
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    Apr 22, 2021
    Thanks for responding HotCakeX.
    Ever since I discovered TileIconifier I've been in love with it. The only problem is that neither UWP nor PWA apps show up in the list of shortcuts, so I don't know how to change the icons for UWP or PWA apps.
    What's the secret incantation for those?

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