Something like this keeps the color and gives you a visual clue that you are using 2022.

Thanks to all who made the suggestion, however I do know how to change the icon of an application shortcut to any of the standard Windows icons, but that's not what I want.

Ideally, we would have the same, identical, Appeon PB icon in 10 different colors to use on the desktop. We could pick the color we want for the version(s) we are using. That's it. Simple. Just including these 10 different icons in the .ICO file currently used for PB now should allow us to make that kind of change for the shortcuts.

PB 12.5 got best icons. 3D icons gives much better view. later PB versions gave yellow color to most of the icons. Someone playing with icons i guess :)

You can always change the icon of an application ( for example pb220.exe) in the properties of that file. So you can create a different icon for each version of PB.

It helps me to be consistent in the order I open multiple versions, but not everyone may have that option.

What I do is always open the production version of PB (which currently happens to be 2019 R3 LTS) first when I fire up my PC in the morning, then another app (say, Outlook) to provide some visual separation of the "production" PB from other version(s) in the taskbar, then if I am doing work in another PB version (testing PB 2022, for example) I start it up next. Of course, you can always drag/re-order the icons in the taskbar after the various PB versions are started. Being consistent doing this, I can always navigate to my "production" PB right away.

No, this was intentional.  The product logo is important part of the product’s identity.  Many companies don’t change the logo every single release to build brand and continuity.  Here is example of Visual Studio:  https://1000logos.net/visual-studio-logo/

Actually there was no change also in PB 2021. Typically the icon has not been updated since PB 2019... Why? I don't know. I guess that nobody thought someone would complain...

Andreas.