Pinning Issues

[Smeg]

Hi guys,

I did a quick search and looked at the tutorial but I couldn't find my problem anyway, I hope it hasn't been covered already.

Anyway, I just updated my iTunes and for some reason (as always) the shortcut resets itself and my current pinned shortcut is useless. So I deleted it and pinned the new iTunes shortcut back to the taskbar but now when I open iTunes I get two icons on my taskbar: one to start iTunes and one for the iTunes program that is running. Before I replaced the shortcut, and for my other shortcuts, I always only had one icon for both. Here's a screenshot that better illustrates the problem:

 

[Brink]

Hello Smeg, and welcome to Seven Forums.

See if this may help. Unpin both iTunes icons on the taskbar. Now open iTunes, and right click on the icon on the taskbar for it and click on "Pin this program to taskbar" instead of from the shortcut.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Smeg]

Hi Shawn,

That didn't work, it just created the same problem. Any other ideas?

 

[Airbot]

That's strange. Usually, if you have 2 icons of the same program like that, when you open the program and have it running, then right click that running icon to the taskbar, it usually corrects the problem, and you can unpin the older one. And it will just stay with that icon closed or running. :huh:

I guess you could just uninstall itunes, and all folders associated with it in appdata, then reinstall, pin that one to the taskbar. A lot of work for just that but may fix it.

 

[Brink]

Smeg,

Do you have Always combine, hide labels set for the taskbar?

 

[Smeg]

Brink, I do. I tried disabling and then re enabling that option but that didn't work either.

Airbot, I tried uninstalling iTunes but when I reinstalled it I had the same problem.

 

[Brink]

Smeg,

You might see if running iTunes in Compatibility Mode with Vista selected may help.

 

[Smeg]

Nope, that doesn't work either. I really don't understand why this has suddenly started happening.

 

[Brink]

I'm not sure what else you can do other than a repair install to see if it can fix the problem without losing anything.

 

[SquonkSC]

You might try this.

When you have opened itunes you see two similar icons, right?

right click on the active icon (the one that appears when itunes is open)
now chose pin to taskbar.

After that right click the other itunes icon and unpin it.

That's it.

 

[Smeg]

Squonksc, I have tried that (and about every variation of pinning/unpinning I could think of), and none of them have worked.

Brink, is that a long process?

 

[Brink]

It's takes a little bit longer than a normal clean reinstall to do a repair install. I would say give yourself around 40 minutes or so to finish doing it.

 

[Smeg]

Ok, I'll try that next weekend and report back.

 

[idolpunk]

I have the same problem, did you ever figure this out?

 

[Smeg]

Nope, I just decided to live with it and hope it's fixed in the next iTunes update. I never tried the repair install though.

 

[unknown]

Just curious

Just out of curiosity, what is the folder path and target location of each itunes icon? (shift and right click on icon and go to properties)

 

[Smeg]

The main icon that I start iTunes from has a properities button, but the one that only appears when the program is running only has Move, Restore, Maximize, Minimize, and Close buttons.

 

[unknown]

This may work

I was able to duplicate your problem on 2 computers by installing an older version of itunes, pinned to the taskbar with only 1 icon always displayed, then continued with an update to the most current version of itunes. After this update, I had 2 icons displayed of itunes. I was also able to solve it by following similar directions on SquonkSC's post.

I opened itunes and had 2 icons displayed, I then unpinned the nonactive icon (right click, then unpin) before pinning the active icon (right click, then pin). I closed itunes and then reopened it from the taskbar which produced only 1 icon.

Make sure the location size of the shortcut is not 0 bytes (when you shift and right click on the nonactive icon, then properties and general tab). You may have to add the itunes shortcut to the file path C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. If it is already present, rename the itunes shortcut to something like itunes2 and then add a new itunes shortcut in this same file path by right clicking then adding the shortcut by browsing for itunes.exe in the program files folder. Eventually you can delete the itunes2 shortcut.

Good luck.

 

[idolpunk]

the problem you duplicated sounds similar but is different. When I open up itunes, there are 2 icons. when I unpin the inactive icon, it goes away. But when I pin the active icon, the 2nd icon reappears