Hey all,

So, with Chrome, when you have multiple accounts signed in, Chrome slaps on an avatar/profile icon onto over the app icon. I loath this with the fury of a thousand suns, lol

Is there anyway to remove this? Either by telling Chrome not to do it, or telling DisplayFusion to use a vanilla Chrome icon for every open instance?

I tried setting a stock icon for the pinned item, but once the app opens, it still shows the gross profile thing.

Any suggestions or tips would be awesome!

In my case, I have multiple Chrome profiles, and each taskbar icon for Chrome is unique per the user profile. However, once I drag a Chrome session to the other monitor, the taskbar icon changes to one used by a different profile. The setting you provided was fine to force the Chrome icon on the secondary monitor to use the default Chrome icon, but I would prefer that it would keep the taskbar icon that the primary monitor displays, b/c the unique icon is specific to the profile utilized by that Chrome session...

Is there anyway to resolve this issue? Thank you!

I have an archaic version Actual Multiple Monitors that doesn't have this problem.. so it should be fixable right?

Hello Keith,
No, I do not have any apps pinned to the taskbar on the 2nd monitor...
Also, this is running on Windows 7 pro, thank you.

No luck, by what means should I send you the reg file?
I have more than 2 profiles, and all the other chrome sessions that are not default show an icon different than default, but they show the same non-default icon regardless of which non-default profile I use... not matching up... I suppose I would not notice the problem if I only had 2 Chrome profiles.

See attached settings file, thank you.
For a true test, you should have at least 3 Chrome profiles that all have different graphical looks... I see Google recently updated the Settings interface... but there is still the option to change the 'look' .. multiple colored person icons, ninja, pizza, soccer ball, etc. still available.

I am using 64-bit Chrome...

Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit)

The top of image is from monitor 1... when i drag to monitor 2, the icon changes.

I'm not sure how the inspector is supposed to work, it seems to take quite a long time before details change, and what kind of hovering will trigger a change...anyway...for the chrome sessions that have issues, the windows icons and process files icons are all just generic Chrome... the only icon that is different is AppID [PinnedIcon], which shows the soccer ball regardless of which monitor the window is active on [for the profile example that doesn't display properly on 2nd monitor]. And, that icon is not the one displayed on the primary monitor.. the appropriate icon should be the Ninja, which is displayed on the primary monitor properly... it should never be the soccer ball for this session, although I do have another profile (not default) that uses the soccer ball. It's odd because actually, the AppID under Inspector suggests I'm using the LNK file from the profile with the soccer ball. Perhaps I should delete the desktop LNK file that it references to see what happens... However, I normally launch the non-default profiles from within the default Chrome session by clicking in the upper-right profile name, and selecting the alternate profile. And the default profile Chrome sessions does not even refer to any LNK under AppID, it simply refers to the default profile directory... it's quite odd since I don't launch Chrome using the LNK file in question. But even for the sessions where "Inspector" believes the AppID is the soccer LNK, the primary monitor displays the proper Ninja icon.

I performed your test, and the only difference is that the secondary monitor now displays all icons in the taskbar with the default Chrome icon only, whereas the primary monitor will display the avatar associated with the profile on top of the chrome icon in the taskbar. (That is, the primary monitor performs as expected, but the secondary does not).

So interestingly, my work computer did not have this issue... but I had another Chrome issue, had to uninstall and re-install Chrome... now afterwards, my work computer does have the same issue... the secondary monitor no longer carries the user-specific profile icon in the taskbar... it's just a generic chrome icon.. the primary monitor is fine as it is with my home system.

I guess the issue isn't limited to Chrome... for my Exchange powershell session has a particular icon that is not carried over to the second monitor... which sports the generic powershell icon when the powershell window is moved to the secondary display...

Glad to hear this, I'm experiencing the same issue (multi-monitor taskbar not showing the Chrome profile icons even with Chrome sessions/windows pinned, launched via desktop icons, etc.)

Please let me know if there's anything I can provide to help troubleshoot, and while it's totally a minor issue, it's definitely appreciated if this can be resolved!

Somehow I missed the email notification *months* ago on this, so my apologies if I'm necro-ing the thread...

Anyway, I'm running Windows 10 Pro, 1803 (17134.407). What's really strange is that right now, for example, is that on my primary monitor using the WIndows taskbar, the second Chrome window has its tab icon showing correctly, but the first does not.

On the *second* monitor, using the DisplayFusion taskbar, the first Chrome window has its tab icon showing correctly, but the second does not.

"All taskbars show all windows", and I'm using I think Beta 7?

Name: DisplayFusion Pro 9.4
• Name Data: DisplayFusion
• Build Date: Dec 17, 2018 18:50

In the mean time, I still have the same taskbar issues I always have, on multiple Win 7 Pro 64 systems. Such as my post on March 1, 2018 (powershell icons), and of course, the Chrome icons changing in the taskbar depending on which monitor I move the application to. Nothing has changed for me from that standpoint.. just making sure my past silence hasn't been misinterpreted, thanks. (running Pro 9.4)

I was able to make both profile icons appear properly on the Windows desktop by managing the profiles and re-selecting an icon, but unfortunately only one still appears successfully on the 2nd monitor (DF Taskbar). The Chrome profile that's run under another user account (and as administrator) is the one that doesn't show properly.

Unpinning and closing sessions only helped my 'first' session... thereafter, launching another profile login (I normally have more than 1 uniquely authenticated running at the same time), simply kept using the 'first' session icon on the secondary screen, and the unique icons only remained on the primary display.

Right now I have no Chrome app pinned on my personal system. On my work system, I do have multiple Chrome profiles pinned. I usually launch the additional sessions from the existing chrome app (upper-right), but not always. Doesn't seem to make a difference though with DF.

I've unpinned the sessions from the DF taskbar, closed & relaunched, and while that does restore the icon for the first/primary session, the second profile remains blank with no icon.

I also have a single Chrome session pinned, and use that to launch another instance as an administrator account, with a different username (and obviously a different Chrome profile on that other user). Obviously my situation is a little more complex, so I understand if it's not as easy to resolve!

That's an interesting video, however neither of my 2 different Win7 systems behave in that manner... is that some basic Win7 image? If so, try some system that's been pounded on for years. I do have some ancient competitor product that is no longer free, but the free version did not have this issue on either of my systems, but it was so dated it had other issues...

Perhaps the information in this response post may assist the DF staff in resolving the taskbar icon issue with apps like (but not limited to) Chrome.
I went and installed a trial version of Actual Multiple Monitors, as I used to use their free version years ago. Their latest version still handles the icons in the taskbar properly as opposed to DF. One interesting thing I noticed is that if I made some particular taskbar-related configuration change to AMM settings and applied it, the icons for Chrome on the taskbar of the "secondary" monitor would revert to the default Chrome icon "until" I activated the chrome session (alt-tab or clicked icon in taskbar). Like DF, there was never an issue with the icons on the "primary" monitor. But perhaps upon window activation (or focus rather), AMM is performing some checking that is forcing the taskbar icon to display as expected on the secondary monitor.