Policy

Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar

Microsoft Windows

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Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

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

This policy setting allows you to remove pinned programs from the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting, pinned programs are prevented from being shown on the Taskbar. Users cannot pin programs to the Taskbar. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can pin programs so that the program shortcuts stay on the Taskbar.

Internal name
TaskbarNoPinnedList
Policy ID
3779a0857ded
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

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

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.