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I like that in Chrome, no matter how many tabs you have open, there is only 1 singular icon on the taskbar. Naturally, IE displays an icon per tab open instead. Is there a way to change this on Windodws 7 / IE9?

I came across this SU posted: Force IE to use one process per tab

But it didn't seem to do what I wanted. Not sure if it's actually relevant or I just misunderstood it and thought it was relevant.

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sab669
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You should just enable behavior that accomplishes what you want.

Internet Options -> Tabs

Then enable the option:

Ramhound
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If I'm understanding you correctly, the solution is actually pretty simple.

In IE, open Internet Options and click the Tabs button. Uncheck the Show Previews for individual tabs in the taskbar checkbox.

Restart IE and then you will only have one taskbar icon - the same behaviour as chrome

TeknoVenus
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Perhaps the poster was asking about removing the preview thumbnails for each tab which pop up when you click on or hover over the grouped taskbar icon. That's what I was trying to figure out when I got here. I don't recollect if Windows 7 does that as I've been on Win10 for quite a while now.

Using IE11 on Win10:

  • Open Internet Options
  • Click the Tabs button
  • Uncheck the Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar* entry
Patrick
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Regarding the question by @Ramhound about his answer not being accepted, I have attempted to verify it by recreating the situation as reported by the poster. But I was unable to cause IE to display a separate taskbar icon per tab.

What I have tried :

  • Unchecking the Internet Options entry of "Enable tab groups"
  • Executing the registry tweak described by the poster
  • Setting the taskbar to "Never combine".

I have rebooted after each change, but have never managed to have multiple taskbar icons for one IE instance.

I must therefore assume one of the following :

  1. The poster has launched multiple instances of IE when the taskbar was set to "Never combine" and wrongly expected their icons to be combined, or
  2. The poster has changed some other setting in Windows but has no idea what he did that caused this problem.

The second case is identical in effect to having a corrupted version of Windows. If the poster cannot remember what he did, the only solutions are Repair Installation, or if this doesn't help, the re-installation of Windows. But this seems to me like really too much trouble for such a small problem.

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I am using IE11 in Windows Home premium. I wanted only one icon on the task bar, the shortcut for IE11 and any corresponding icons for open windows combined into this icon. This was achieved by creating a shortcut on the desktop then dragging that to the task bar. Now when I open IE11 the icon does not move but shows that I have more than one window open. Hovering the mouse, (if using aero) gives a preview of all the open windows.

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