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I have been trying to change the icons for the shortcuts on my taskbar on Win7, but they don't seem be changing except for one of them.

I have done this before in the past, and it worked, but suddenly it doesn't appear, even when I kill the explorer.exe process and restart it, restart win7. Nothing seems to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

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What have you been trying? – Sasha Chedygov Dec 26 '09 at 21:01
Are you referring to pinning or quick launch? – MrStatic Dec 27 '09 at 11:04
Sorry If I haven't been clear. I right click on the icon for the program on the taskbar, it shows the jumplist (If availabel) then right click again, choose properties, than choose change icon. I choose an icon, but that new icon doesn't appear, the old one stays. Restarting Win7 doesn't do a thing. – elvispt Dec 27 '09 at 16:44
Never mind. It suddenly worked. I clicked on the programs to start and all icons changed. It didn't happen before then. A Win7 quirk probably. – elvispt Dec 27 '09 at 21:58
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Open Explorer to the following location:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

Then change the icons by right clicking and going to change icon and locating the .ico file of your icon you'd like to use.

Once you change all of your icons you want to change, open up task manager (Control+Alt+Delete) and end explorer.exe Then click File > New Task (Run..) Type Explorer.exe and press Enter. It will work then...enjoy!

PS, I only know this because I just figured out how to do this myself and successfully changed all of my icons just a few minutes ago!

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