Windows 7/8 taskbar icons

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When a program is running, it produces a sort of multiply highlighted icon on the taskbar - with one overlay per open document. However two similar programs can get overlaid on the same icon: in particular two different versions of the same program running simultaneously.

Ive just run version 6,8,9,11,12 of my program simultaneously, and versions 11,12 share the taskbar icon, but the others are all different.

Does anyone know what attribute of a program has to be different to cause it to have its own icon? It evidently isnt the executable file name as versions 6,8,9 share one name and 11,12 share another.

The two strings in the wizard-generated MFC project which might affect it are IDR_MAINFRAME (the main window caption) and AFX_IDS_APP_TITLE (which I think governs where the programs data goes in the AppData folder) but these dont seem to affect it either.

Another variable is that v11 and v12 are compiled with VS2010, and the others with earlier versions of VS, but surely that cant be important?

Id like every version to have its own icon (each with overlays for multiple documents).

Any help resolving this would be very welcome.

Dave

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