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I have Krita installed on Windows 10. I have its icon pinned in the Taskbar.

In my "Start-up" dir, I have a shortcut to Krita.exe with the flag --load-session "stuff", in order for Krita to start up when my computer starts for the day, opening my "session".

It works, but the problem is that Krita opens itself in a separate Taskbar icon to the far right, with the pinned Krita Taskbar icon just sitting there.

This is not the first time that something similar to this happened. I don't understand it and I hate it.

What causes "duplicate" Taskbar icons like this? I thought the whole point of this "new" Taskbar was to group icons and avoid clutter.

What to do to prevent this from happening, so that the same program only has one "Taskbar icon/group", which seems to be how it's intended to work?

Costa
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There's a setting (Settings > Personalization > Taskbar) that can prevent combining of app icons on the taskbar. Perhaps yours is set that way.

kreemoweet
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I could reproduce the issue, with a new regular shortcut on the desktop. However, if I copy the shortcut the installer creates in the start menu and modify that, the issue does not occur.

The original shortcut contains some additional metadata that persists when changing it. Without this additional data, Explorer simply treats it as a different application.

This solution will not always work. I have some software (wsltty) that always results in a new taskbar entry.

user219095
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