My GUI program's icon isn't display at taskbar

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2025-07-29T07:29:06.4266667+00:00

Hello MS team, I am a Korean working as a developer in Korea. Please understand that it may be difficult to read because I'm not good at english T.T

I am producing and distributing GUI programs using python and pyqt5 library. This program has even completed an electronic signature using DigiCert certificate. This program recently encountered a problem that the icon replaced with some other icon built into the windows(please see attached image. the icon on the rightmost side is the program I created.)

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If there's anything unusual about it, the icon will appear normally when you fix the program to the taskbar, but if you disable it, the icon won't appear again.

I guess, this issue that has occurred since the Windows version was updated to the latest version. The reason I think so is that none of my program code has been modified.

Below are the actions I took to solve the problem.

  1. Delete IconCache.db
  • stop the explorer.exe, delete IconCache.db and restart explorer.exe.
  1. set application's AUMID
  • I don't know if it was set the wrong way, but it didn't work out even with the AUMID setting in the app.

If this is a real Windows 11 version problem, please suggest a solution. Windows 11 version downgrade is not possible, so I would appreciate it if you could suggest a solution among the methods that exclude version downgrade.

Have a good day! Thank you :)

Windows development | Windows App SDK
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