Multiple taskbar icons in Windows 11's taskbar settings

[apple020997]

https://github.com/altstoreio/AltStore/assets/61558456/64d62eaa-7ba2-4a9d-a5c2-fb87e19ab8ec

As shown in the video, in Settings-customization-taskbar settings-other icons on taskbar (not really sure if those are the correct names, since my Windows 11 is in Italian) there are at least 200 entries for AltServer, and thus I can't always have it shown in my taskbar.

[PWittix]

I have the same problem. I'm trying to see what kind of behavior causes the Settings options to be duplicated.

I was able to remove the entries by editing the Windows registry.

Manually modifying the Windows registry may have unintended consequences.

To delete the entries, run regedit or search for the Registry Editor. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings and browse through the numbered entries.
In the right panel, there will be the registry values. Look for the Name ExecutablePath with a Data containing AltServer.exe

This is the specific Data string: {7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8E}\AltServer\AltServer.exe (This may be different depending on the installation path.)

The format appears to have a UUID or GUID in curly brackets with the following number of hex characters. 8-4-4-4-12 From Microsoft Documentation of Known Folder GUIDs, the GUID path corresponds to Program Files (x86)

[apple020997]

I have the same problem. I'm trying to see what kind of behavior causes the Settings options to be duplicated.

I was able to remove the entries by editing the Windows registry.

Manually modifying the Windows registry may have unintended consequences.

To delete the entries, run regedit or search for the Registry Editor. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings and browse through the numbered entries. In the right panel, there will be the registry values. Look for the Name ExecutablePath with a Data containing AltServer.exe

This is the specific Data string: {7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8E}\AltServer\AltServer.exe (This may be different depending on the installation path.)

The format appears to have a UUID or GUID in curly brackets with the following number of hex characters. 8-4-4-4-12 From Microsoft Documentation of Known Folder GUIDs, the GUID path corresponds to Program Files (x86)

Thanks!!!!! For now I've removed all the duplicate entries in the registry, and now there's only one of it as it should. I'm keeping an eye on it for the next few days, though.

[apple020997]

Sadly, every restart there’s a new entry on the registry, and so there’s a new entry on the settings. I don’t know enough of the core of Win, but the only other case I have of another program which does a similar thing, it does that when it updates and changes its install folder’s name (WeMod for cheats in singleplayer only games).

[akshaybharwani]

Using a friendlier Reg Editor tool like oo-software:

I delete all of these and disabled the app from the Startup Menu to avoid creating it every day. But it would still come up every 7 days when I would use it to refresh.

[sdugoten]

anyway to fix it? The list is getting extremely large on that taskbar icons...............

[rinnelin]

same problem……