Thread: Out of the blue - 64bit taskbar icon stops combining
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Old 09-21-2017, 05:28 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I did find one bug while investigating -- basically the app uid calibre was sending to windows was not being interpreted correctly. I have fixed it, unfortunately the fix means that you will have to unpin and re-pin calibre after the next release.

I don't think this bug has any bearing on your issue however. But it never hurts to try.
@Kovid - No problem with re-pinning, if push comes to shove my neighbour is a seamstress

I'm going to stop investigating the problem, but let me know here or via PM if you want me to do any specific tests. I'm happy to use 32bit, I never have any big conversions, most take less than a minute on this new machine.

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Originally Posted by AnotherCat View Post
I get the issue with PDF-XChange and as I have said applications that do so seem to be differentiated from those that don't in that the issue ones have a shortcut in ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs. As far as I have experienced I think all such programs do it for me.

Regarding timing, perhaps the following adds strength to that proposal -

I had a play around with randomly changing the taskbar settings for which displays the taskbar button should display on while the application window was on a second display. As I said before the active instance one would move to the monitor the application window was moved to when set to do so. However, now later, I randomly changed back and forth the setting for the button between "all taskbars", "main taskbar and where widow is open" and "taskbar where window is open" and managed to "trick" it into ending up with 2 buttons on the taskbar of both displays .

So something in Windows affects that behavior in a particular family of application installs (probably just those in the ProgramData directory)???

Off for my evening meal: I would be interested in any outcomes.
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
Thank you. As I have the same problem... in some computers... (3 Wind 10, one OK, one uncombined and the last, I don't remember), I'll check.
Big thank you to you both. Really good to know it's not just me, that it's not peculiar to calibre 64bit, and that it happens on some machines and not others. I just crossed reinstall Windows off the list of possible solutions for this problem.

Can you post which Windows 10 you use, mine is Windows 10 Pro version 1703* up to date as of now.

@John - it would be interesting to know if 32bit PDF XChange suffers the same fate - but I have a feeling its msi combines 32 & 64 bit and it decides which one its going to install. Maybe there's a separate 32bit download.

BR

* !703 - the year in which Daniel Defoe was sent down for sedition and pilloried, it is said he was pelted with flowers rather than the customary rocks.
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