In Windows 10, iTunes shows another icon on the taskbar when you click on the program that you have pinned to the taskbar.

Likewise, none of the above suggested solutions have worked for me on Windows 10. I still have 2 icons!

yummyMoon, this still didn't help me, the shortcut already had these settings for me. 😕 I didn't want to try downloading the shortcut file posted before, does anyone know what differences it has to a shortcut created by Windows?

Apparently the appid of a program and the actual shortcut created can be different if a program is created using standard methods. Aaron's method worked for me, but when I tried to do some of the solutions here for another program I ran into the same situation. Looking into the actual problem I found this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140820213114/http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/9850 14-guide-pin-programs-with-custom-launch…

Comparing the default taskbar icon appid from the program I was trying to pin to the actual running program using the utility in this link I finally saw what was really going on. Likely because Aaron's file was from a machine that actually grabbed the right appid, his works great. The mkshortcut.exe program mentioned has a broken link though. I found a good copy here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/gzkgthmjhyv/mkshortcut.zip

This should solve it for any program hope it helps you all.

Thanks Aaron44126, this worked for me in Win 10 also.

You need to use the actual link (http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/985014-guide-pin-programs-with-custom-launch) rather than the Web Archive Wayback Machine version, otherwise the download link for the software won't work.

I worked as a software engineer at Microsoft on the Windows 7 shell team responsible for this AppID stuff, and I can vouch for some kind of AppID mismatch being the root of the issue here. This looks more to me like a bug in the iTunes installer than in Windows. I also vaguely recall the team struggling with exactly this issue with whatever version of iTunes was the latest during Win7 development, and us having to coordinate with Apple to get it fixed, so it's quite likely that Apple just regressed this issue in newer iTunes releases.

(I don't see any way to edit my previous post to make revisions/corrections, so I'm just posting this as a reply.)

I worked as a software engineer at Microsoft on the Windows 7 shell team responsible for this AppID stuff, and I can vouch for some kind of AppID mismatch being the root of the issue here. This looks more to me like a bug in the iTunes installer than in Windows. I also vaguely recall the team struggling with exactly this issue with whatever version of iTunes was the latest during Win7 development, and us having to coordinate with Apple to get it fixed, so it's quite likely that Apple just regressed this issue in newer iTunes releases.

You need to use the actual link (http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/985014-guide-pin-programs-with-custom-launch) rather than the Web Archive Wayback Machine version, otherwise various links on the page won't work. But you don't really need to download the Taskbar Tweaker software if all you want to fix is iTunes. I can tell you the iTunes AppID is simply "Apple.iTunes". Also, if you want to "permanently" fix this (such that even if you delete the desktop shortcut and unpin iTunes from the Start menu and taskbar it will still work when you re-pin it), then you don't want to just drag the shortcut you create with mkshortcut.exe to the taskbar. What you want to do is overwrite the original Start menu shortcut installed by iTunes, which is located here: "%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\iTunes".

Big Thanks to jkettles16 and c0d3h4x0r !

The HowTo jkettles16 provided and the additional info from c0d3h4x0r where really useful. This finally fixed the annoying double Icon problem permanently.

Hey Aaron, Please could you reshare the .lnk file?

Hey everyone! It looks like they have fixed this in the latest update (I didn't need to download the .ink file or anything). I pinned iTunes, opened it, and it now only has the single icon. I'm assuming it's fixed for other people too 🙂

I always see complicated responses to questions that often have simple answers. The worst is when you hear "uninstall, then reinstall." Second worst is to send a person to the Registry. While a distant, but no less annoying third is to "clear cache... blah blah blah..."

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My solution was to simply left-click my existing iTunes icon on the taskbar to open iTunes. When the second iTunes icon appeared, I right-clicked the first, original icon and unpinned it -- that one goes away. Then, I right-clicked the new, second icon that appeared when iTunes opened and pinned that one to my taskbar. When I close iTunes, that second one stays and Voilà! Now when I click my iTunes icon on the taskbar, I only have one icon when iTunes opens.

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If you have trouble with this method, try it two ways:

First, remove the existing iTunes icon you now have on your taskbar to start fresh. Then,

1) Go directly to your iTunes.exe file (not any shortcut) and right-click that file and pin the actual application itself as your ''first icon'' on the taskbar. Now, to be safe, see if that opens fine or if it creates a duplicate icon on the bar. If you get a second icon, do my method above.

Or, if that didn't work for that icon made from the actual application, try:

2) Create a Shortcut on your Desktop linked to your iTunes.exe file and pin that shortcut to your taskbar as your ''first icon'' on the taskbar. If that creates a duplicate icon when you open iTunes, do my method way above.

Hopefully that should work for many of you who are still having problems or are shy about downloading files and .lnk files (like I am). Best thing about my method (if it works) is, there is no downloading from the web, and no messy Registry entries and mishaps.

Thank you! Sometimes the most simple of things are the most effective.

So very glad to hear it 🙂 I get a bit worried when I post something and fear that it won't help, or oops, make thing worse. Cheers!