When my application opens too many windows the taskbar groups them into one button. Each window has its own icon, but the grouping icon is the default "unknown"-kind icon.
How can I set the grouping icon?
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The taskbar group icon can be set in the registry on a per application basis.
For explorer, this would be here:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\explorer.exe]
"TaskbarGroupIcon"="C:\Windows\Explorer.exe,13"
Tomalak
2008-10-20 16:50:17
It seems that Explorer.exe is the only application on my computer that is registered in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications". Other apps (including Outlook) do have a correct icon, but they don't have a "TaskbarGroupIcon" value...
Michael Damatov
2008-10-20 17:01:04
Hm... Have you tried as a work-around at least?
Tomalak
2008-10-20 17:34:31
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This comment from Raymond Chen indicates that the icon is coming from the exe itself, I would suggest using something like eXeScope to make sure that your application icon is being embedded properly, and maybe compare it with other exes that display proper behavior to do delta debugging.
Sijin
2008-10-20 17:50:43
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Application taskbar group icon we can set 2 ways 1) Through Project Properties:- Click Project in solution explorer->right click->select properties->select Application tab->go to resoruces and change the default icon and select the newicon and save and build. 2)Through Registery(Dynamic):- You have to create TaskbarGroupIcon key and value is "icon file with path" under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\<>" If above keys are not present you have to create RegistryKey RegKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\Classes\Applications\temp.exe",true); RegKey.SetValue("TaskbarGroupIcon", "c:\temp.ico", RegistryValueKind.String);
Regards Ajay
Ajay
2010-07-16 11:39:52