Hidden Taskbar Icon in Win 10

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When I pin an Outlook icon to the Taskbar, it shows up as “Outlook 2016 (2)”, indicating that there is already an Outlook icon on the taskbar. How do I find this hidden Outlook icon and delete it? Or, how do I make it show so I can delete the duplicate?

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Ed

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

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Well, it does remove the Outlook icon, as expected, but when I pin it back to the taskbar again, it still appears as Outlook 2016 (2).

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

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No, I’m not going to reinstall Office just for that. Thought somebody might know where it might reside in the registry or something where I could locate the offender and delete it. In the meantime I just renamed a shortcut to “Outlook” (rather than it’s default “Outlook 2016”)and put it back on the taskbar.

Thanks, davidhk

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

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Try going to Right side bottom, click on the inverted V (hidden icons) and you may find your other “outlook” there.

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Have a look in:

C:UsersAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar

The easiest way is to enter %appdata% in the address bar of File Explorer.

Note that AppData is a hidden folder so, before anything else, do this:

[*]Open File Explorer.
[*]Click on File in the menu bar.
[*]Select Change folder and search options.
[*]Click on the View tab.
[*]Change the option for Hidden files and folders to Show hidden files, folders and drives.
[*]Click on the Apply button at the bottom right of the dialog.
[*]Click on the Apply to Folders button near the top of the dialog.
[*]Click on the Yes button to confirm what you want.
[*]Click on the OK button at the bottom of the dialog to dismiss the dialog.

Hope this helps…

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Or right-click Start then left-click Command Prompt (Admin) then type (or use copy-and-paste):

cd C:UsersAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar
(press enter)

Then type:

dir /p
(press enter)

to get a list of the contents of the folder.

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Ok, coochin, your suggestion solved the problem. I went to C:UsersAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar and deleted both Outlook 2016 entries. After removing the icon from the taskbar, and re-pinning it, it did finally show as “Outlook 2016” and not as a second occurrence.

Thanks to all for suggestions.

It does seem a bit strange to me that the taskbar entries were in a folder as a subordinate folder of internet explorer. I would have figured Windows Explorer, especially since I don’t even use IE or Edge.

In any case, thanks again.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

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Well, i tried option 2 and, when I pinned Outlook back to the taskbar, it showed as “Outlook 2016 (2)” once again. Need to try other ways I guess.

thanks for the try, davidhk

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

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