Edge icon missing in taskbar

Shanester · 28 Jan 2020

Greetings,

I followed the instructions to install the new Edge side by side with Edge legacy. Now the icon for Edge legacy isn't showing on the taskbar.

I've tried rebooting. What else can I try?

Thanks,
Shane.

dalchina · 29 Jan 2020

It's just a pinned shortcut- nothing magical. Try
Create Shortcut of Microsoft Edge in Windows 10
then pin it to the taskbar.

Shanester · 30 Jan 2020

The shortcut isn't pinned. You can tell because it isn't underlined.

For example, the first three shortcuts here are pinned, but the last three aren't:

Is there any way to see the icon for Edge Legacy? I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting.

Shane.

dalchina · 31 Jan 2020

Thank you for your reply. Mine is. It's not underlined until Edge is launched. The tutorial tells you how to create a new one. I'm sure someone who's playing with the new browser will help you.

Phone Man · 31 Jan 2020

When you install the new Edge it replaces all shortcuts of the legacy Edge and points to the new Edge only.

Jim

Shanester · 03 Feb 2020

dalchina said:

The tutorial tells you how to create a new one. I'm sure someone who's playing with the new browser will help you.

I followed the instructions in the tutorial to create a desktop shortcut, however, the icon on the taskbar is still blank.

Phone Man said:

When you install the new Edge it replaces all shortcuts of the legacy Edge and points to the new Edge only.

In my first post I mentioned that I installed the new Edge side by side with Edge legacy.

How can I find out why an app doesn't have an icon?

Shane.

ellellell1 · 03 Feb 2020

Shanester said:

In my first post I mentioned that I installed the new Edge side by side with Edge legacy.

Hey Shane

May I ask how legacy Edge was installed along side the new Edge?

As Jim said, if it was just a download of the new version of Edge it does actually change the pathways to the new version.
Or was it a separate download specifically for the legacy version of Edge?

Is it also just an icon issue? Can you open the legacy version and the new version at the same time?

Shanester · 03 Feb 2020

ellellell1 said:

May I ask how legacy Edge was installed along side the new Edge?

The instructions are here.

ellellell1 said:

if it was just a download of the new version of Edge it does actually change the pathways to the new version.
Or was it a separate download specifically for the legacy version of Edge?

Is it also just an icon issue? Can you open the legacy version and the new version at the same time?

The instructions are a registry edit. You then download the new Edge normally. It looks like just an icon issue. I've never seen this problem for any other application. I'm not sure where to begin fixing this.

Shane.

ellellell1 · 03 Feb 2020

Ah yes, sorry I must have just missed the hyperlink.

Try browsing to this location "C:\Windows\SystemApps"
And look for the folder - something along the lines of "Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_"
Open that folder and right click and pin that .exe to the taskbar

This should also confirm that the installation of Legacy Edge is correct

Shanester · 03 Feb 2020

If I pin Edge legacy to the taskbar, it looks like this. The app is closed (not underlined):

If it's not pinned, it looks like this. The app is open (underlined):

It looks like pinning it to the taskbar is a work around. But I still don't understand why the there is no icon (if it's not pinned) or how to fix it.

Shane.