2 different windows icons for instance and normal Everything?

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Biff
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2 different windows icons for instance and normal Everything?

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After the last restarts of the notebook I always had have two different icons here for both, the normal portable Everything (red) and the second instance (blue).

Shortcut:
J:\Programme\Everything\Everything64.exe -instance "Instant"

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How could I get that instant / second instance with a blue icon for each of its open windows?
tuska
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Re: 2 different windows icons for instance and normal Everything?

Post by tuska »

Hi,
Menu "File" - "New Search Window CTRL+N" works for me.
 
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Biff
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Re: 2 different windows icons for instance and normal Everything?

Post by Biff »

Hello,

Yes, yes, I did it (created / renamed that file, etc.) a few weeks ago, but today after a new start of Win, those (windows) icons were the same, not the other, smaller ones on the right side of the System Tray.
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But suddenly the icons now are as they should be:
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Didn't change anything (intentionally). So maybe one just has to wait (do nothing), until all of the problems will be solved automatically. But I do not understand at all (like always) why that had happened.

Many thanks!
tuska
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Re: 2 different windows icons for instance and normal Everything?

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Biff wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:13 pm Didn't change anything (intentionally).
So maybe one just has to wait (do nothing), until all of the problems will be solved automatically.
But I do not understand at all (like always) why that had happened.
When you first mentioned the issue here and here, I tried to solve it and I also got the same view,
i.e. unchanged/undesired icon colour for an Everything instance. Everything was started via the shortcut.
After I started the Everything instance via a button in Total Commander, the ICON colour was fine.

Here is the solution (unfortunately I did not think of it immediately):
 
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Biff
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Re: 2 different windows icons for instance and normal Everything?

Post by Biff »

When you first mentioned the issue here and here, I tried to solve it and I also got the same view,
Thank you for the links, yes, since then it was how it should be (until today).
Here is the solution (unfortunately I did not think of it immediately):
Many thanks for the screenshots! Here the correct icon already is / was set. Maybe it was done automatically, by Win or Everything or whatever. I probably would have thought I would have done it according to your instructions (links above).

Maybe the reason was Windows that first displayed the wrong icon, not the slightest idea.

Thank you very much!
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