White icon on taskbar

[VY Canis Majoris]

Hi,

I recently changed my computer to take a more powerful one, however, i think i messed up something because for Wallpaper Engine, i have a white icon on the taskbar and not the classic icon i can find on the screen. It's absolutely not a big deal, but still... something like that make me think there is a problem somewhere.

Edit : I pinned ? (i'm not sure if it's the correct word in english sorry) it to the taskbar (still a white icon like a paper with the corner bend) and when i try to click on it, it says that the access path doesn't exist... but i don't understand, i reinstalled completely Steam and Wallpaper Engine when i switched computer.

Does anyone have an idea please ?

[Biohazard]

You can try to pin it directly from here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\wallpaper32.exe

[VY Canis Majoris]

Thanks, it works ! However, i still have that ugly white paper icon on the taskbar when i set wallpaper engine as active :s If i click on the pinned icon on the taskbar, it'll generate a second white paper icon next to it. It's only doing that for Wallpaper engine so far

[Biohazard]

Wallpaper Engine uses multiple programs. The background program is what Windows must "pin" and Wallpaper Engine needs to specifically configure Windows to do so, because otherwise it won't work at all when pinned, since it starts the wrong program.

But this is a very special Windows behavior that only very few programs use and it's not reliable. We don't know how to force Windows to fix this. It might be necessary to flush the icon cache of Windows or some other kind of cache, but there is too little information on the internet.

Typically this issue gets resolved by Windows eventually automatically, but like I explained, we don't know how to force Windows to resolve this yet and we have no personal contacts at Microsoft to ask about it or ask them to improve how well Windows supports this special case.

So it may be possible to fix this right now if you can figure out how to force Windows to work properly, but otherwise it should eventually resolve itself on its own.

[VY Canis Majoris]

Okay thanks a lot for the help, i'll try to figure out a way. It might be because of the way i transfered my files from my previous PC i think, but maybe not. Anyway, as i said, it's not a big deal :)

[Biohazard]

No worries. If you started it multiple times on the same PC but from different installation paths, I think that could be the cause for a problem like this. But otherwise I don't think it's related to how you copied the files.

It happens rarely but I think it can just happen at random too, however we never found any useful information about this or figured out why. If you manage to find an instant fix that works, that would be very good to know for sure. But if not, from what we know it will just resolve itself eventually when Windows does whatever kind of scheduled task cleans this up.