I am getting the wrong icons on my taskbar, it's always different apps that are effected both with wrong icon and whose icon is used.
Right now you can see powershell has the one note icon.
Windows 8.1 showing wrong taskbar icons
November 13th, 2013 12:56am
Have you tried to clear the IconCache?
Purge & rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 7 | 8
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-the-icon-cache-windows
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November 13th, 2013 5:39am
Have you tried to clear the IconCache?
Purge & rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 7 | 8
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-the-icon-cache-w
November 13th, 2013 10:27pm
this is an issue on your system. I never had this.
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November 14th, 2013 5:41am
yes i know its a issue on my system. But it's an issue on my HTPC\Laptop\PC\Virtual machine so its a common problem even if you have not had it.
November 14th, 2013 6:23am
I'm having the same issue on my desktop computer (windows 8.1), it has 2 screens, the icons are wrong in different ways on both screens, see screenshots below.
I also own a laptop that does not have this weird problem.
Spotify clearly should not have the Opera icon (wrong on both screens) and the Snipping Tool icon is applied to the Remote Desktop Connection on the left monitor, on the right monitor the icon is correct though.
left monitor:
right monitor:
I've never had this issue before (on windows 7 & 8)
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November 29th, 2013 1:47pm
I notice the same issue on my Windows 8.1 ..
December 16th, 2013 2:53pm
See sample:
Note that the icon changes somethimes....
- Edited by Sander SVE Monday, December 16, 2013 2:55 PM
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December 16th, 2013 2:54pm
This solution did not fix the problem. I did not have this problem until I upgraded to Windows 8.1 a couple of days ago. Now when I open Adobe Reader, the Photoshop icon displays in the task bar. Really annoying. Purging the icon cache did nothing.
March 2nd, 2014 3:36am
This solution did not fix the problem. I did not have this problem until I upgraded to Windows 8.1 a couple of days ago. Now when I open Adobe Reader, the Photoshop icon displays in the task bar. Really annoying. Purging the icon cache did nothing.I have exactly the same issue. PS icon showing for Acrobat. Annoying.
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March 15th, 2014 2:22pm
I have had this on my 8.1 system for about 6 weeks now, it gets really quite tied up in a knot sometimes, more than just the icons changing, the links seem to change as well. CTRL-ALT-DEL and log off clears it all back to normal again.
March 23rd, 2014 5:32pm
I've been annoyed by this constantly happening for a long long time. Checking up on it again this last time, I found an article relating the issue to small icon mode, which I use. I discovered that at least the
problem can be fixed temporarily WITHOUT REBOOTING/killing explorer.exe
by unchecking "Use small taskbar buttons" and then checking it back again.
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April 30th, 2014 12:37pm
Tried all the solutions in this thread and none worked for me. Acrobat and SQL Data Compare are both showing a completely different app icon that isn't even open! Clicking the "use small icons" appeared to clear out the icons as everything went blank but as they filled in, they still had the wrong one and unclicking it produced the same effect.
I've had this on multiple windows 8.1 machines and even one a freshly rebuilt one. Nothing appears to be fixing it and I have no idea what program i'm clicking on without waiting for the desktop preview window!
The daft thing is, the preview window gets it right!!
November 11th, 2014 4:10pm
I have this problem too. For example, Acrobat Reader shows the Serif PhotoPlus Icon in the taskbar. Like all above, this has only happened since upgrading to Windows 8.1.
I even went onto the Microsoft Chat. They had the cheek to tell me it was a fault with my computer, and I would have to PAY to get an answer!
This is clearly a problem with this version of Windows. Any help resolving it would be appreciated. Thanks.
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April 10th, 2015 5:04pm
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