How to set the Taskbar Grouping Icon

.net winforms icons grouping taskbar
Michael Damatov picture Michael Damatov · Oct 20, 2008 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

When my application opens too many windows the taskbar groups them into one button. Each window has its own icon, but the grouping icon is the default "unknown"-kind icon.

How can I set the grouping icon?

Answer

Tomalak picture Tomalak · Oct 20, 2008

The taskbar group icon can be set in the registry on a per application basis.

For explorer, this would be here:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\explorer.exe]
"TaskbarGroupIcon"="C:\Windows\Explorer.exe,13"

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