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wooster11
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I currently have a custom icon set for one of my applications (Clover) and have it pinned to one of my taskbars.
I have my taskbar setting set to "Windows taskbar shows all windows, DisplayFusion shows relevant windows"
I have a four monitor setup.

When I open up Clover on the monitor that has the item pinned to the taskbar my custom icon shows up. Because I have the Windows taskbar showing everything, the Windows taskbar also shows the proper custom icon.

When I move my Clover window to any other monitor where there is no configuration, it ends up showing the original icon in the taskbar that is assigned to the actual EXE and not the custom icon.

I'm able to have the custom icon used if I setup the application on the other taskbars, however, I do not want the application to be pinned on those taskbars. I do want my custom icon to show. I'm also able to get the custom icon to show if I change my taskbar mode to: "All taskbars show relevant windows" and copy the shortcut to all the taskbars.

Is there anyway that I can have this app pinned to a single taskbar with a custom icon and have that custom icon show on all monitor's taskbar when the window is active on that monitor.

Attached is a screenshot as well as the troubleshooting log so you can see my settings.
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Jan 10, 2014  • #1
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
This is unfortunately a known limitation, but I'm going to have a look at it again to see if we can come up with a way to make this work. I'll post an update when we have one :)

Thanks!
Jan 14, 2014  • #2
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To try and solve this problem, I ended up downloading ResourceHacker to actually change the icon of the actual EXE file.
http://www.howtogeek.com/75983/stupid-geek-tricks-how-to-modify-the-icon-of-an-.exe-file/

However, after doing this, the improper icon still shows up. I've removed all custom icons in my settings and the taskbar that I have set up still shows the proper icon. However, on all other monitors, the old icon is still showing even though that icon is no longer actually part of the program that is actually running anymore.

Is the icon cached somewhere to keep the taskbar snappy? If so, how can I refresh that cache of icons?
Jan 30, 2014  • #3
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
I don't believe DisplayFusion is caching the icon, but I'll test out the resource hacking method and see what I can find out.
Feb 3, 2014  • #4
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Tested this out here, and it looks like the resource hacking method only changes the process icon, but DF is reading the window icon, which I don't believe can be easily changed. I'll also add a request to our list for the ability to force a taskbar button to use the process icon instead of the window icon.

Thanks!
Feb 5, 2014  • #5
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
We've just released a new DisplayFusion beta version and you can now create a compatibility rule for applications to force the DisplayFusion taskbar to use the process icon, so your modified process icon should now work :)

Please let us know if you run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks!
Jun 8, 2014  • #6
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
We've just released a new DisplayFusion beta version (http://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/) and the DisplayFusion taskbar should now use the custom icon from the Windows taskbar. If the same application was also pinned to the DisplayFusion taskbar, you may need to unpin/re-pin it to the DisplayFusion taskbar before it will get the correct icon. Please let us know if you run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks!
Nov 20, 2014  • #7
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