https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4 DisplayFusion RSS: Launched pinned program creates new taskbar item and has different exe name in right click menu? Sat, 23 May 2026 07:35:15 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#10 Wed, 20 May 2026 13:40:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#10 DisplayFusion We've released a new beta with some further changes, can you try it out and let me know if the issue persists? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#9 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:43:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#9 DisplayFusion I thought the issue was fixed as I had a few days with 0 issues but it did occur again today:

Streamlabs Chatbot didnt launch on its pinned icon and doesnt display the correct exe name.

Elite Observatory HAS the correct EXE name but didnt launch on its pinned icon - this one is slightly different though, as it initially launched on its icon, then the program opens a progress bar and that seems to trigger it to move to a new taskbar icon - this hasnt happened previously though, seems to be a new symptom but repeatable.
Attached a video to help explain it better ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#8 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#8 DisplayFusion Unfortunately 12.1, Beta 1 seems to have bigger issues:

UPDATE: I've instlaled Beta 2 and thats solved the white box issue so I'll report back on the main issue ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#7 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:15:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#7 DisplayFusion We've released a new beta that might fix this up, can you try it out and let me know if the issue persists? Here's the link: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/ ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#6 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:38:07 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#6 DisplayFusion This looks like it could be a similar issue to one we're fixing up for the next beta. We'll let you know when it's available to try out.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#5 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:33:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#5 DisplayFusion Ive had it happen with a number of pinned programs recently, all showing as Windows Command Processor and not launching on their pins, even if i close and reopen, they will still show as WCP
Can take 3 to 4 re-launches to act normally sometimes or they just wont align at all. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#4 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:51:04 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#4 DisplayFusion Yeah strange it's showing DisplayFusion as the exe. Can you grab me two separate copies of that file, one when it's working and one when it isn't? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#3 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:45:23 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#3 DisplayFusion Attached ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#2 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:52:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4#2 DisplayFusion Could you do the following for the firefox window when it's combined, and again when it's moved back and not combined?

• Install one of our other apps, Window Inspector: https://www.binaryfortress.com/windowinspector (it's free)
• Open the affected application
• Open Window Inspector
• Hover over the affected window with your mouse so that the affected window's info shows in the Window Inspector window
• Press Ctrl + Shift + F1 to freeze the timer in Window Inspector
• Press Ctrl + Shift + F2 to save the info from Window Inspector to a file
• Send me the file from the previous step

]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:57:25 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/launched-pinned-program-creates-new-taskbar-item-and-has-different-exe-name-in-right-click-menu/?ID=019c61ce-6f9b-7050-9cce-c867c6e206d4 DisplayFusion Been experiencing this issue for a while, a year or more most likely, currently running the latest beta 12.0.2 Beta12
I have a number of programs that I launch via a .BAT file and noticed this occurs regularly with these, but I also have had it when launching a pinned item from a desktop shortcut/start menu etc.

Screenshots attached:

Screenshot 1)
Firefox was opened by clicking the circled pinned icon, at some point the Firefox tab was moved to another monitor (as a 2nd Firefox instance with the original circled Firefox tab still running) and then moved back to the original monitor.
It didn’t combine with the original tab (which had been shut down since) but the right-click menu shows it as Unknown not Firefox

Screenshot 2)
BAT file launch example: You can see StreamLabs hasn’t opened on its pinned taskbar item, but it also doesn’t show the correct exe name in the right-click menu, shows Windows Command Processor" instead.
All the other pinned taskbar items in that screenshot were launched from the same BAT file, but this issue can occur with any of them, or multiple at the same time. ]]>