Policy

Prevent changes to Taskbar and Start Menu Settings

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryStart Menu and Taskbar
Supported onAt least Windows 2000

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows2000, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

This policy setting allows you to prevent changes to Taskbar and Start Menu Settings. If you enable this policy setting, The user will be prevented from opening the Taskbar Properties dialog box. If the user right-clicks the taskbar and then clicks Properties, a message appears explaining that a setting prevents the action. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Taskbar and Start Menu items are available from Settings on the Start menu.

Internal name
NoSetTaskbar
Policy ID
d9a579d8e271
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoSetTaskbarREG_DWORD
1
0

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