1.5.0.1423b (x64): unpinned taskbar button shows generic Windows application icon

[mj6jl5lk6j6]

Everything 1.5.0.1423b (x64): running, unpinned taskbar button shows a generic Windows application icon instead of the Everything icon.

Environment:
- Windows 11
- Everything executable: J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5b\Everything.exe
- Version: 1.5.0.1423b (x64)
- Explorer displays the correct embedded icon for Everything.exe.
- The issue persists after fully terminating Everything and launching with a newly generated Everything.ini.
- Restarting Explorer changes the generic fallback icon but does not restore the correct Everything icon.
- Other taskbar application icons are normal.
- Everything 1.5a did not have this issue on the same system/configuration.
- Displays: three 2560×1440 displays at 150% and one 1920×1080 display at 150%; no 4K display and no 300% scaling (earlier bug report)

[void]

Please check if there's a dead Everything shortcut in your Start menu.
The Taskbar button will use this shortcut for the icon.
Remove any dead shortcuts.



Please try fixing the taskbar button:

• Right click the Everything button in the taskbar, right click Everything and click Properties.
• Click Change Icon.
• Set Look for icons in this file to:
  
  %ProgramFiles%\Everything\Everything.exe
• Press ENTER.
• Click OK to select the icon.
• Click OK.
• Restart Windows.

Taskbar button with blank icon with the wrong target and start location.

[mj6jl5lk6j6]

Thank you. I did find and delete a dead Start Menu shortcut pointing to my former portable location:

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J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5a\Everything.exe

However, deleting that shortcut did not change the generic taskbar icon, including after a reboot.

Additional findings that may be helpful for other portable users who experience this behavior:

• I start/show Everything using my configured Ctrl+Shift+F “Show Window” hotkey.
• Task Manager confirms the active 1.5b processes are launched from:
  

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  "J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5b\Everything.exe" -svc
  "J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5b\Everything.exe" -startup

• But when I inspected the running taskbar button:
  

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  Right-click taskbar button -> right-click Everything -> Properties

  Explorer showed this stale relaunch target:
  

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  J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5a\Everything.exe -is-relaunch-command

  “Change Icon” also reported that Windows could not find:
  

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  J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5a\Everything.exe

• Searching for the literal old path found two stale shortcuts under:
  

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  %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts\

  Both
  Everything.lnk
  files targeted the obsolete 1.5a executable.
• Renaming one of those
  ImplicitAppShortcuts\...\Everything.lnk
  files immediately fixed the running taskbar icon.

So, in my case, the active cause was a stale Explorer implicit application shortcut/relaunch record pointing to the prior 1.5a portable folder.

For reference, this occurred after moving from:

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J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5a\

to:

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J:\StandaloneApps\Everything_1.5b\

Everything.exe

itself displayed its correct icon in File Explorer throughout.

[Herkules97]

Maybe you could export your registry and then search all locations for Everything.exe or Everything.lnk or whatever.
Maybe something somewhere is sitting on a dead spot. Idk, I'd think the icons come from the individual exes so the registry doesn't apply.
I've only used portable versions and icons have never faltered.
Latest build I have in an instance running right now is 1423b.

[therube]

Renaming one of those \ImplicitAppShortcuts\

Prior to the rename, did the icon itself in the /ImplicitAppShortcuts/ directory show the expected (Everything) icon?

And the "rename".
Just what did you mean by that?
You renamed the .lnk itself? The /<GUID foldername>/ itself? Or you changed the Properties of the .lnk to point to the 1.5b location rather then the 1.5a? Or...?



(And since I wasn't familiar, particularly, Windows Shortcut and Pinned Taskbar Icon handling.)

[mj6jl5lk6j6]

Prior to the rename, did the icon itself in the /ImplicitAppShortcuts/ directory show the expected (Everything) icon?

No: it was the icon I was seeing in Taskbar

You renamed the .lnk itself?

Yes; just added "X" at end (i.e. Everything.lnkX)