I changed the icon of my game, but the monogame icon is still in the Taskbar.

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How can I solve this problem?

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Hi @Direnc-Ogmen, Welcome to the Community.

Which project are you using?

Ensure the asset is set to ‘Copy if Newer’ in properties.

Happy Coding!

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Hey @Direnc-Ogmen ,

This is sort of a known issue/bug with the current DesktopGL templates, so I’m going to assume you’re using the DesktopGL project template. I’ve posted about this issue here Changing the `Icon.ico` or `Icon.bmp` Files Do Not Update Window TItle Icon or Taskbar Icon · Issue #8035 · MonoGame/MonoGame · GitHub and have put in a PR to resolve it.

But for now, if you want to manually fix it, edit your .csproj file for your project and find this section here

 <ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Include="Icon.ico" />
    <EmbeddedResource Include="Icon.bmp" />
  </ItemGroup>

And change it to the following

<ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Include="Icon.ico">
        <LogicalName>Icon.ico</LogicalName>
    </EmbeddedResource>
    <EmbeddedResource Include="Icon.bmp">
        <LogicalName>Icon.bmp</LogicalName>
    </EmbeddedResource>
</ItemGroup>

This should resolve it for you so the correct icon shows in both the taskbar and your game window’s title bar

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Thanks Aristurtle. This solution worked for me. But it looks like I had to rename my icons to Icon.ico and Icon.bmp for it to work.

Looking at your root cause mentioned here:

It seems to imply that SDL Game Window is requiring this hard coded name.

Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(
  Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().EntryPoint.DeclaringType.Namespace 
  + ".Icon.bmp")