Ghost icons left on taskbar

[miss carrie]

I keep getting these ghost icons that won't leave. I tried reinstalling, but they're coming back. Any ideas? The last time they filled the whole taskbar.

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[Jacee]

Your image isn't showing up for me... neither is your link

 

[johngalt]

I have seen this issue reported multiple times on various builds - it was a lot more prevalent for me personally on build 6801, especially with Irfanview, but not so much no on build 7048.

 

[swarfega]

I get this sometimes, I just either click on the taskbar or the image itself and it goes away.

 

[miss carrie]

I have seen this issue reported multiple times on various builds - it was a lot more prevalent for me personally on build 6801, especially with Irfanview, but not so much no on build 7048.

Interesting. Irfanview is the only specific program that left these behind - this example is a dialogue box I think. Is there any way to flush these out, even if I have to replace the others? The last install had a good 20 of them.

 

[garysgold]

Hello miss carrie,

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

The store for pinned items is located here. C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

Gary

 

[johngalt]

It is not a pinned item, though, but a ghost of the application as it was running after it has ceased to run.

I have found that the application is hanging , and even task manager was not always successful on getting it removed.

However, I can officially say that, thus far, on build 7048 x86-64, I have not had it happen once. On 7048 x86, it has happened twice - but both times if twas an application hang, and when the application caught up the item did finally go away.

 

[miss carrie]

Thanks.
Worked on the first try!