Brave icon not displaying on Windows Taskbar

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Description of the issue:
Brave icon is not present on taskbar button to open brave browser. Instead it is a default icon of a blank sheet.
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Drag brave application to taskbar

Expected result:
Brave icon shows on taskbar icon button
Brave Version( check About Brave):

Version 1.43.93 Chromium: 105.0.5195.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:

brave icon taskbar bug

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I’ve seen this with other Windows apps as well.

I’m not sure what causes it, but usually the easiest thing to do is:

  1. Close the app
  2. Unpin the ‘blank’ one from the taskbar
  3. Start the app back up
  4. re-‘pin’ it using the newly launched app
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Negative, that did not affect the issue. I just did a full uninstall and reinstall, but this workaround shouldn’t really be necessary… Thanks anyway. It works now.

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thanks, it works! thanks so much

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The above suggestions didn’t work for me. I ended up uninstalling and then reinstalling Brave. The taskbar icon is now back to normal.

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Update: It’s the pinning action that causes the Brave taskbar icon to disappear. Reinstalling Brave corrects the problem, but pinning the Brave icon to the taskbar causes it to get lost again.

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Update: Finally got this thing fixed for good. I had to completely uninstall Brave.

  1. Uninstall Brave as per usual–delete all user data.

  2. Reboot to safe mode.

  3. Delete folders associated with Brave.

    • C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware
    • C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming
    • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

  4. Search registry (regedit) and delete all keys related to Brave.

  5. Normal reboot, and install Brave as per normal.

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