Change Microsoft Edge Taskbar icon

Question

How would I change the Taskbar icon for Microsoft Edge. Note that the Edge exe is not double-clickable, so creating a shortcut and changing the icon didn't seem to work for me.

Edit: I created shortcut with this path: %windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge and changed the icon. However, when clicking on my icon (white) in Taskbar, it switches to the default icon:

Update

There is a

C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets

directory that contains images used by Edge. You can replace the blue ones with the black/white ones, or bring your own. After changing the files, you need to restart the computer. Also unpin and repin Microsoft Edge in the taskbar.

They do require permission to modify so you would need something like Take Ownership.

If you do this, you don't need to follow the original answer below.

Original Answer

Create a shortcut on the Desktop and set the address to:

%windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge and name it Edge or whatever

Change the icon of the shortcut and then drag the new shortcut to Edge onto your taskbar.

Comments

[Joel Christophel]

Take a look at my edit.

[MC10]

There is a resources.pri and it references the Assets directory. Perhaps you could change the icons in that folder and that will do what you want.

[Joel Christophel]

What's the path to the Assets directory?

[MC10]

It's inside the Edge directory.

[Joel Christophel]

I don't have an assets folder here: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-microsoftedge_31bf‌​3856ad364e35_10.0.10‌​240.16397_none_19381‌​f0c8accd5dd However, I have a bunch of edge icon pngs in that directory. I changed the blue pngs to their white counterparts, but this didn't change the task bar. Where else could it be?

[MC10]

How did you arrive at that directory? I believe it should be C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.

[Joel Christophel]

I got there by searching for the Edge exe. The changes I made seemed to be reflected into the Assets directory.

[MC10]

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

[JacobTheDev]

Will that get overwritten with an update to the app? I'm trying to do the same thing but for a few store apps...