Program icon in the taskbar show as unknown icons

Hey everybody,
I've had this problem with the taskbar and with 2 programs I've seen, Fraps and Firefox (which I use) I open them with the shortcut on the Taskbar but after a while it moves to another icon which is like there is no picture in the icon (See pictures)
How can and if I can, fix this?
Picture:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vo555ierw4qovpq/Screenshot%202015-01-04%2003.53.12.png?dl=0
Picture nr 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmm0cu8r9izhu41/icons.PNG?dl=0

Hi,
From the snapshot you pasted above, other pinned icons are working correctly except firefox (maybe Fraps).
it should be like this
The taskbar pinned icons information are stored under
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband]
maybe some corruptions exist in the registry key "Taskband", as a test, please first export the registry entry to desktop, then delete the
key "Taskband", restart explorer.exe, then re-pin the program to taskbar, system will automatically rebuild the registry key "Taskband".
And if possible, I simply suggest you uninstall and reinstall the firefox (or Fraps), this can help us eliminate some corruptions in firefox or Fraps.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

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