Calibre creates new icon in taskbar when launched

[Kraftwerk]

I'll try my best to explain the situation.

Calibre is creating a new icon when I click on the pinned icon in the taskbar and I have to use this new one to minimize etc.

Is it possible for this new icon not to show and I can minimize using my original pinned icon?

It's taking up extra space on the taskbar.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

I'll try my best to explain the situation.

Calibre is creating a new icon when I click on the pinned icon in the taskbar and I have to use this new one to minimize etc.

Is it possible for this new icon not to show and I can minimize using my original pinned icon?

It's taking up extra space on the taskbar.

This should solve your problem.

https://uk.pcmag.com/how-to/91319/7-...ows-10-taskbar

De-Clutter

Here's another way to set how icons fit on the taskbar. Scroll down the Taskbar settings screen until you see the section for "Combine taskbar buttons." Click on the drop-down box beneath, and you'll see three options: "Always, hide labels," "When taskbar is full," and "Never."

[BetterRed]

Which version of calibre, and which OS and version?

If Windows 10 and calibre 4.x try this:

• with calibre not running unpin the existing taskbar icon;
• start calibre from Start Menu or WinKey+R, calibre, Enter;
• right click the taskbar icon and pin it;
• close calibre;
• move the icon to where you want it

BR

[Kraftwerk]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Which version of calibre, and which OS and version?

If Windows 10 and calibre 4.x try this:

• with calibre not running unpin the existing taskbar icon;
• start calibre from Start Menu or WinKey+R, calibre, Enter;
• right click the taskbar icon and pin it;
• close calibre;
• move the icon to where you want it

BR

That did it. Thanks so much

[Georgie W]

I've got the same problem as @Kraftwerk, and I've tried @BetterRed's solution, which isn't working for me, unfortunately. I've made sure the taskbar icon is pointing directly to the application file, not a shortcut, but no good.

Don't know if it's relevant but the problem started after I'd re-installed Windows10 and Calibre (4.22). I'd previously backed up Calibre's configuration settings from my user profile and (after reinstallation) copied them over the new configuration settings (not sure how else I should have backed up and restored these).

I've tried installing 4.23 on top of 4.22, but that hasn't solved the double icon on the taskbar problem.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Georgie W

I've got the same problem as @Kraftwerk, and I've tried @BetterRed's solution, which isn't working for me, unfortunately. I've made sure the taskbar icon is pointing directly to the application file, not a shortcut, but no good.

Don't know if it's relevant but the problem started after I'd re-installed Windows10 and Calibre (4.22). I'd previously backed up Calibre's configuration settings from my user profile and (after reinstallation) copied them over the new configuration settings (not sure how else I should have backed up and restored these).

I've tried installing 4.23 on top of 4.22, but that hasn't solved the double icon on the taskbar problem.

You din unpin any calibre taskbar icons BEFORE starting Calibre?
This solution has worked for me on 3 PC

[Georgie W]

Originally Posted by theducks

You din unpin any calibre taskbar icons BEFORE starting Calibre?
This solution has worked for me on 3 PC

Yes, I unpinned Calibre from the taskbar before starting it, I made sure I started it from the programme itself (not a shortcut) and I pinned the running programme icon. It's a technique that's worked on other programmes so I'm a bit baffled why it's not working here too.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Georgie W

Yes, I unpinned Calibre from the taskbar before starting it, I made sure I started it from the programme itself (not a shortcut) and I pinned the running programme icon. It's a technique that's worked on other programmes so I'm a bit baffled why it's not working here too.

Try creating shortcut to calibre.exe in the %APPDATA%Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\

There's a 'wizard' for creating shortcuts in File Explorer, viz:



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[Georgie W]

@BetterRed - Thanks for the suggestion. I could create the shortcut, but it did not appear in my taskbar (is it relevant that IE is not my default browser?). I'm still wondering whether over-writing my Appdata configuration settings on re-installation has anything to do with it? I mean, I can start from scratch and recreate them all, but I seriously don't want to.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Georgie W

@BetterRed - Thanks for the suggestion. I could create the shortcut, but it did not appear in my taskbar (is it relevant that IE is not my default browser?).

No.

Originally Posted by Georgie W

I'm still wondering whether over-writing my Appdata configuration settings on re-installation has anything to do with it? I mean, I can start from scratch and recreate them all, but I seriously don't want to.

That taskbar shortcuts are kept in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\ is a legacy from Windows 95 or maybe earlier. Fact is, they never had anything to do with IE (they're a Windows/File Explorer artefact), and the Quick Lunch feature more-or-less disappeared in Win 7.

Ideally the taskbar shortcuts (that's all they are) should be in a directory at %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Taskbar - alongside SendTo and Startup directories - which are also collections of Windows shortcuts.

History of the Microsoft Windows Taskbar - YouTube

I just remembered - there's a 'proper' way to do this, viz:



So called experts often forget the bleedin' obvious

BR

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

So called experts often forget the bleedin' obvious

BR

Too true.

When I was wage slave I would often ask "I know it is obvious but what about XXXX". It was amazing how many times "XXXX" had been forgotten.

On occasions when it had not been forgotten, I was told sarcastically "Of Course. It is goes without saying"

[Georgie W]

Thanks to everyone for suggestions. In the end, I deleted Calibre and all my appdata personalisations (made a notepad file of all of them, plus screenshots, so come All the Apocalypses I can recreate ad infinitum). Reinstalled Calibre 4.22 & there is - thanks goodness - only one icon in the taskbar. It's seriously a first world problem (OMG I have TWO icons), but I'm feeling curiously soothed now it's working properly.