Pinning on W10 taskbar not working correctly

[Sophist-UK]

I can pin running apps to the taskbar, and close them, but when I open them again rather than the pin icon becoming a running task icon, instead I get a separate taskbar entries for the pinned app and the running app.

[pyrates999]

Please take a screen shot of what you mean and upload it here as a jpg.

[Sophist-UK]

I pin Outlook to the taskbar, and click it to start it and this is what I get:

[pyrates999]

Did you uninstall explorer patcher and reboot to confirm if this is caused by explorer patcher?

[Sophist-UK]

I switched back to Windows 11 taskbar (using Properties) and it was fine - and then back to Windows 10 taskbar and had the same issue.

I cannot see how uninstalling Explorer Patcher and rebooting would do anything different as uninstalling will switch back to Win 11 taskbar as above.

[pyrates999]

Good, then you've confirmed it. Thank you.