I have had to unpin settings from taskbar, which removed my original control.exe icon but left behind the second button lower down the taskbar below MSPaint(XP ver) then I pinned settings to taskbar and its usual cogwheel icon appeared below the Control Panel, and both now behave properly.
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Old habits I guess, for me anyway. All the icons I have pined to my taskbar get there that way. I launch the program, Outlook for example, then just right click and PIN. Another way to do it is type Control Panel in the search box, right click its Icon in the search results and Pin from there. Or Cortana I guess, I only have Search Windows.
Microsoft Windows has long been famous for a multitude of parallel, alternative and redundant pathways to get to the same goal. Since Windows 8, their attitude has been literally iconoclastic. It's like as a city grows, the archaeology beneath not only gets buried, but it is irrevocably destroyed in places. Sniff.
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