Jump List not being added to

rednoise0

I’ve been using the 32-bit version of Notepad++ for many years with few or no problems. It’s one of my most-used utilities. A few days ago I “sidegraded” to the 64-bit version, for no particular reason except to see what would happen. All’s well except one thing: the pinned icon on Windows’ Task Bar is no longer accumulating file names on its jump list. Is this a known problem, or is it a setting I missed, or something peculiar to my computers? This is on a Windows 10 and Windows 11 machine.

debug info:

Notepad++ v8.9.6 (64-bit)
Build time: May 19 2026 - 16:20:38
Scintilla/Lexilla included: 5.6.2/5.4.9
Boost Regex included: 1_90
pugixml included: 1.15
nlohmann JSON included: 3.12.0
Path: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line:
Admin mode: OFF
Local Conf mode: OFF
Cloud Config: OFF
WinGUp: present
disableNppAutoUpdate.xml: absent
Periodic Backup: ON
Placeholders: ON
Scintilla Rendering Mode: SC_TECHNOLOGY_DEFAULT (0)
Multi-instance Mode: monoInst
asNotepad: OFF
File Status Auto-Detection: cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode: OFF
Display Info:
primary monitor: 1366x768, scaling 100%
visible monitors count: 1
installed Display Class adapters:
0001: Description - Intel® HD Graphics 620
0001: DriverVersion - 27.20.100.9664
OS Name: Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
OS Version: 22H2
OS Build: 19045.6466
Current ANSI codepage: 1252
Plugins:
DSpellCheck (1.5)
HTMLTag (1.6)
MarkdownViewerPlusPlus (0.8.2)
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.7)
NppExport (0.4)
NppSnippets (1.7.1)
NppTextFX (2.0.3)
QuickText (0.2.5.1)

rednoise0

Does nobody have any thoughts about this? I’m about ready to back down to the 32-bit version just to get my jump list back, which I find very helpful.

If the 64-bit version breaks the jump list feature, I would consider that a bug.

PeterJones

@rednoise0 ,

It works with 64-bit for me. I think jump list is mostly in the Windows side of things, so my guess is it’s on the OS’s end, maybe in the way you uninstalled vs installed, or some such.

Update:

You might want to read the results of recent research I did in this jump list related issue in the repo:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17948#issuecomment-4246404470

It should give you some things to look for to figure out if Windows is trying to update the jump list or not

rednoise0

@PeterJones This gives me some good food for thought. It seems plausible that Windows is confused about Application ID between the 32-bit vs. the 64-bit versions. Not sure how to fix it, but identifying the problem would be a step in the right direction. The Nirsoft utility should help.

On one of the two computers that I went from 32- to 64-, I went back to 32- by uninstalling 64- then reinstalling 32-, keeping my AppData preferences folder. The Jump List started working again. Not sure of the precise significance of that but it feels related.

Thank you for your thoughts. At least I know it should be possible.

PeterJones

@rednoise0 ,

I actually did a bit of searching after making the updates to my post yesterday, but wasn’t in a position to make a followup post (and forgot to today, until your reply): Some sites indicate that just creating the pin-to-taskbar for an app should be enough to initiate it…

So maybe, if you edited the old pin rather than creating a new pin, then Windows didn’t update the link between that pin and the underlying application ID. Thus, you might want to try something as simple as unpinning from your taskbar, then create a new pin from the 64-bit installation. That might be enough to kick Windows and get it to start properly tracking Notepad++ files again.