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I have both Chrome and Eclipse pinned to my taskbar in Windows 7 64-Bit. However, when I launch these programs, they don't appear to open under the pinned taskbar icon

Launching a chrome window looks like this

Eclipse behaves similarly. The Eclipse launcher/workspace selector is under the pinned icon, but once the IDE opens, it moves from the pinned icon, to a new group at the end of the taskbar.

unpinning/repinning doesn't seem to do the trick. It's bothersome to have taskbar space wasted on both the launcher icon, and the window button.

Anybody have an idea how to get normal behavior out of the taskbar?

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Strange. Both programs work as intended under my machine. . . – surfasb Jan 28 at 1:27
it may be 64 bit for eclipse, and adding user profiles to chrome, from what my searching has turned up. You're on 32 bit, with default chrome profile right? – Slothsberry Jan 28 at 2:11
Nope. 7 x64 with default Chrome profile. Same with Eclipse Indigo. On a fresh VM. Same with Win7 x86 on a fresh VM. Those are the only two applications that do it? – surfasb Jan 28 at 2:48
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The problem is that the pinned application actually starts another process (which is not pinned). This often happens with applications that spawn a 64bit version of itself after they were started.

Sometimes it helps to unpin the application you have on your task bar, right-click the new task and select "Pin this program to task bar".

FYI: There's a bug report for Chrome on exactly this issue. When I looked into this issue myself a couple of months ago, it seemed like it is generally an application issue (not a general Windows issue). So for every application I use that has this problem, there are usually bug reports about it (FileZilla, Eclipse, ...).

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As i said in the question, unpinning, and repinning the new task doesn't seem to do the trick, but that seems like a sensible explanation of why it's happening. – Slothsberry Jan 27 at 15:52
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Another solution is to try the 7 Taskbar Tweaker.

It will allow user defined application grouping.

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

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From the Chrome bug reports that I've found working in 19.x is to remove the User Data folder from 

C:\users\$USERNAME$\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\

When you restart Chrome and pin it, Chrome will then behave and report multiple windows opened under the pinned icon once again.

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To solve this issue do the following:

  1. Start Google Chrome (this creates a new taskbar icon)
  2. Right click on the new icon and select "Pin this program to taskbar"
  3. Go to: C:\Users\ --your.user.name-- \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
  4. You will see the two pinned "Google Chrome.lnk" here. Delete the "Google Chrome.lnk" and make "Google Chrome (1).lnk" readonly: Right Click -> Properties -> General tab -> tick Read-only -> Click OK
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