April 30th, 2004

Where does the taskbar get grouped button icons from?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Follow-up question to Where does the taskbar get grouped button titles from?: Where does the taskbar get grouped button icons from? The icon for grouped taskbar buttons comes from the icon for the underlying EXE, the same icon that appears when you open the folder that the EXE resides in and scroll down to the EXE.

For example, if you have multiple Explorer windows open and the taskbar buttons get grouped, the icon you get for the grouping is the Explorer icon. The system doesn’t try to merge all the icons for the individual windows together, one of which might be a hard drive icon, another a Control Panel icon, another a folder icon, etc.

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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