Weird Windows 7 Taskbar Icons issue..

[mulderite]

 

Hi everyone,

 

I have a very weird problem arising on our newly installed Windows 7 network which I hope someone can shed some light on.

 

Currently we have students using Win 7 64bit with roaming profiles. We've begun to notice a small niggle whereby certain taskbar icons of programs that are running do not match the actual program.

 

For example, a student clicks Microsoft Word using the shortuct in the start menu, Word opens as a new window but the associated icon in the taskbar will show a totally different icon - let's say Powerpoint. What's really bizarre is that if you right click the icon in the taskbar it shows the commands relating to that icon (so if the icon looks like Powerpoint it will display the command for opening Powerpoint as a program - not Word!).

 

Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so, how in the name of sweet billy-o did you fix it?? Whilst the students can get on with their work some are finding it a little confusing when they have lots of programs open and the icons are showing incorrectly.

 

Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[mulderite]

I think we sorted this issue out, for anyone else who may discover it we just got around it by enabling the 'Prevent grouping of taskbar items' group policy.