![]() ![]() Then,ġ) 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. ![]() If you have trouble with this method, try it two ways:įirst, remove the existing iTunes icon you now have on your taskbar to start fresh. 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. Then, I right-clicked the new, second icon that appeared when iTunes opened and pinned that one to my taskbar. When the second iTunes icon appeared, I right-clicked the first, original icon and unpinned it - that one goes away. My solution was to simply left-click my existing iTunes icon on the taskbar to open iTunes. While a distant, but no less annoying third is to "clear cache. The worst is when you hear "uninstall, then reinstall." Second worst is to send a person to the Registry. I always see complicated responses to questions that often have simple answers. 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". 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. I can tell you the iTunes AppID is simply "Apple.iTunes". But you don't really need to download the Taskbar Tweaker software if all you want to fix is iTunes. You need to use the actual link ( ) rather than the Web Archive Wayback Machine version, otherwise various links on the page won't work. 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. This looks more to me like a bug in the iTunes installer than in Windows. 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. (I don't see any way to edit my previous post to make revisions/corrections, so I'm just posting this as a reply.) Has anyone had a similar issue yet with iTunes and Windows 10? And if so, have you found a solution to it? Thank you. I have tried various combinations of unpinning and repinning and nothing seems to get iTunes to use the one icon on the taskbar like every other program. For example one of the most popular solutions to this issue from the Windows 7 era is to unpin the highlighted icon while the program is running and repin it. I have tried various methods of fixing this, including some solutions that were suggested when users had this issue with the Windows 7 taskbar. When I click on the icon to run iTunes, a 2nd iTunes icon is always generated instead of the "pinned" one becoming highlighted, as happens with other applications. When I closed iTunes it became the only icon again. This created a 2nd iTunes icon on the taskbar. I ran iTunes and used the "Pin this program to taskbar" from the right-click menu while the program was running. ![]() I am running Windows 10 Pro and the latest version of iTunes for Windows 64 bit (12.2.1.16). ![]()
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