Prevent users from resizing the taskbar
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting allows you to prevent users from resizing the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting, users are not be able to resize their taskbar. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users are able to resize their taskbar unless prevented by another setting.

Internal name
TaskbarNoResize
Policy ID
f04308e43e30
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
TaskbarNoResize
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
TaskbarNoResize
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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This policy has no additional user input fields.