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By default (at least in my installation), pinned items on the taskbar will be "icon only" when they have no active windows, but when there are active window, the icon expanded to include text (typically some portion of the title text).

I'm looking for a way to either:

A (preferred option):
For any single pinned item, force this pinned item to always display as just the icon even if it has active windows.

OR

B (acceptable option):
Force ALL pinned items to always display as icon only in the taskbar

DMA57361
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Robert
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Right click the taskbar and hit Properties. From here, check the Taskbar tab and set the Taskbar Buttons option.

You want to hide the names of the programs, which Windows refers to as "Hide Labels".
This means using the Always combine, hide labels option.

If you want to hide labels without enabling combining, check out the SU question Hide taskbar labels without combining for some advice in that area.

These will affect every taskbar icon.

Community
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DMA57361
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Right click on the Task Bar and choose Properties. You should see two drop down boxes the second one is "Taskbar Buttons:" change the option here to "Always combine, hide labels".

Windos
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I found a solution! This little application allows lables to be hidden per application ID. I think it is exactly what you and I have been looking for.

http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

Kevin Gallahan
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"Combine if taskbar is full" has that effect. It looks like this:

Taskbar element, unlabeled

Note how the two pinned apps (XAMPP and Explorer) are only represented as buttons, while the other two apps have labels. If I was to launch one of them, it'd look like this:

Taskbar element labeled

Is that what you need?

Tobias Plutat
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