https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d DisplayFusion RSS: Pinned element in taskbar Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:24:19 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d#4 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:35:09 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d#4 DisplayFusion Hi, the issue haven't been fixed yet, my suggestion for the BFS team is to allow to detect programs through their executable name regardless of the path, so if a Opera.exe is detected, even if it is from a different path from the pinned one, it will be consider as if it was the original Opera.exe.

The issue would be if the user want several version of Opera, but allowing exe to be detected inside a specific folder could also help.
For example, everything inside "C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\" even if it is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\x.x.x.x\opera.exe" will still be considered as the same executable since its path contain "C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\".

As a programmer, I did few days ago a software to fix this issue with Opera and DisplayFusion shortcut, and also Logitech profiles who also use full path.

My program work like that :
Check registry to see if Opera and/or Opera Beta are installed, and if yes take their install path.
From their install location, use the "Launcher.exe" to read the file version which is also the path of the latest "opera.exe" and get the full path.
If at least one is installed, it check if DisplayFusion and Logitech Gaming Software exist and launch their subroutine.
For DisplayFusion, it close it, go to the registry, identify if the path is from Opera or Opera Beta and change every path who contain opera.exe into the new one for each taskbar, and relaunch DisplayFusion.
For Logitech it is basically the same thing but using the profile files in the appdata folder rather than registry.

If anyone want a fix software like that and it's source code just ask me, I can do any option you want like auto checking Opera folder or the version of the running opera.exe process each minutes, hours or each days only after a certain hour or at a exact time, only change path for regular or beta Opera, or only for a specific taskbar, to be a simple icon on the tray area that work when clicked on it, handle other software than Opera, 32 bit version etc etc ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d#3 Tue, 14 Feb 2017 07:00:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d#3 DisplayFusion thank you for your option. I think I had already tried it but, as you say, then the window element is displaced from the pinned element.
I'll let you work on it ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d#2 Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:02:12 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d#2 DisplayFusion I've tested this out, and at the moment there isn't anything you can do from your end to fix this up. We've put this on our list to fix up and we'll definitely let you know when it's sorted out.

As a partial workaround, you can pin "C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" to the DisplayFusion taskbar. It won't combine with the button for the running Opera window, but it will at least still launch Opera after an Opera update

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:55:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/pinned-element-in-taskbar/?ID=7d95355b-0d2d-4eb6-8c57-54d6a188bd0d DisplayFusion Hi all,

I don't really know if this is a feature or a bug but it's something that's bothering me so I wanted to know your opinion:

My main browser is opera, which currently is little more than a custom UI over chrome. Like chrome, it updates quite often. Every time opera updates, the pinned element in the taskbar is obsolete and the new version windows doesn't use it, uses a new element not pinned.I have to unpin the old one, pin the new one and move the latter to the location of the former.

Is there a way to make Displayfusion pin the application (opera) and ignore its current version? ]]>