Icon not showing in Task Bar - Win 11

[johnfoliot]

My laptop recently upgraded to Windows 11, and now when I launch Mp3tag, the button is in the task bar, but the icon is not showing.

[Florian]

See here:

No "sign" (dot) showing mp3tag is active in task line from Windows 11

I've investigated this over the past hour and it seems that this is a side-effect of the Explorer context menu shell extension. Windows uses a dedicated mechanism to load those extensions in memory (a so-called COM Surrogate) which is apparently listed as separate process without icon in the task bar. This is far from optimal, but I don't know how to circumvent this currently. I tried to see how other programs are dealing with that and the latest preview of WinRAR shows the same behavior. If a…

[Florian]

I think I've found a way to circumvent this and fixed it with Mp3tag v3.12a.