Hi,
With Pixinsight 1.9.3 and earlier, I’d drag my stored Process Icon file (just once) onto the PI icon on the taskbar of Windows 10 and from then on when I right-click on that icon, the process icons open along with Pixinsight.
This can’t be done with Windows 11.
Is there another way to do this? Google says to add a line to the PI startup file, but this cannot be done either.
Jerry
I’m assuming it still works with the newest versions of pixinsight, but I haven’t upgraded yet to check. Right click and save your process icons, and then save it to the desktop. Use the icon on the desktop that you saved to open pixinsight and it’ll open with the process icons.
Quinn Groessl · May 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I’m assuming it still works with the newest versions of pixinsight, but I haven’t upgraded yet to check. Right click and save your process icons, and then save it to the desktop. Use the icon on the desktop that you saved to open pixinsight and it’ll open with the process icons.
Yes, it works the same. If your saved project file with the icons isn’t in your desktop folder, you can also make a shortcut to that project file on your desktop and then just double click on it to open PI with your icons.
This is what I use:
I create a pinned icon for PI on the taskbar then edit it and use the following in the target and start in fields. This directly opens my saved project with all the customizations I have saved in the project.
Target (Saved project file path):
"G:\Astrophotography\Pixinsight Projects\Mono.pxiproject\project.xosm"
Start in (folder in which the above saved file is located):
"G:\Astrophotography\Pixinsight Projects\Mono.pxiproject"
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Quinn Groessl · May 26, 2026, 11:25 PM
Right click and save your process icons, and then save it to the desktop. Use the icon on the desktop that you saved to open pixinsight and it’ll open with the process icons
I have my Desktop shortcut point to the saved process icon file and that shortcut has survived multiple re-installs and the (2) updates to the latest version.