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How would I change the Taskbar icon for Microsoft Edge. Note that the Edge exe is not double-clickable, so creating a shortcut and changing the icon didn't seem to work for me.
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I created shortcut with this path: %windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge and changed the icon. However, when clicking on my icon (white) in Taskbar, it switches to the default icon:
Joel Christophel
Posted 2015-08-03T15:04:17.380
Reputation: 287
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There is a
C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets
directory that contains images used by Edge. You can replace the blue ones with the black/white ones, or bring your own. After changing the files, you need to restart the computer. Also unpin and repin Microsoft Edge in the taskbar.
They do require permission to modify so you would need something like Take Ownership.
If you do this, you don't need to follow the original answer below.
Create a shortcut on the Desktop and set the address to:
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge
and name it Edge or whatever
Change the icon of the shortcut and then drag the new shortcut to Edge onto your taskbar.
MC10
Posted 2015-08-03T15:04:17.380
Reputation: 7 590
Take a look at my edit. – Joel Christophel – 2015-08-03T15:29:05.237
There is a resources.pri and it references the Assets directory. Perhaps you could change the icons in that folder and that will do what you want. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T15:57:06.787
What's the path to the Assets directory? – Joel Christophel – 2015-08-03T16:07:30.793
It's inside the Edge directory. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T16:09:51.927
I don't have an assets folder here: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-microsoftedge_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16397_none_19381f0c8accd5dd However, I have a bunch of edge icon pngs in that directory. I changed the blue pngs to their white counterparts, but this didn't change the task bar. Where else could it be? – Joel Christophel – 2015-08-03T17:36:41.643
How did you arrive at that directory? I believe it should be C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T17:41:46.930
I got there by searching for the Edge exe. The changes I made seemed to be reflected into the Assets directory. – Joel Christophel – 2015-08-03T17:50:51.567
Will that get overwritten with an update to the app? I'm trying to do the same thing but for a few store apps... – JacobTheDev – 2017-06-20T19:07:45.387
Same way you would for anything, a resource hacker. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T15:06:54.207
The way you would normally change a Taskbar icon does not require a resource hacker. It is built-in functionality. – Joel Christophel – 2015-08-03T15:15:33.887
How would you usually do it? I'm not sure what the built-in functionality is other than creating your own shortcut. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T15:20:16.777
That's the functionality to which I'm referring. Create a shortcut. Change the icon. No need for a resource hacker. – Joel Christophel – 2015-08-03T15:28:26.743
Edge does not open like other programs, for reasons unknown to me yet. Like you said, the exe is not openable by double clicking. Therefore the shortcut created is not directly linked to the exe. I don't think you will be able to change the shortcut icon in the normal way. – MC10 – 2015-08-03T15:40:09.377
The new Windows 10 is just funny like that! :-) I recognized this because I once tried to do the opposite and create a shortcut on the desktop, but with the blue icon. I got it alright, but the icon was white instead! =P – Samir – 2015-08-12T12:53:32.990