Windows 11 - Autopilot Branding - Searchbox Taskbar and Right Click Menu

[Dipl0]

Hey!

 

We are working at our move into Windows 11 with all devices now on intune.

I've looked at using the "AutopilotBranding" tool (GitHub - mtniehaus/AutopilotBranding) to create some defaults for the users, wallpaper, some amendments.

I came across a video (

) where this guy had configured the Right Click Menu to be the old style right click with all the options and also the search task bar to be minimised.

Now I'm going to give another crack at the Pinned taskbar anyway, but the right click menu I can't seem to get right.

 

I used his advised Reg edit of

[font=arial]reg.exe load HKLM\TempUser "C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT" | Out-Host
# Restore Right Click Menu
reg.exe add "HKLM\TempUser\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /ve /d "" /f  | Out-host
# SearchTaskBarMode Icon Only
reg.exe add "HKLM\TempUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" /v SearchboxTaskbarMode /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f | Out-Host
reg.exe unload HKLM\TempUser | Out-Host[/font]

This particular method works for the other options I am applying such as taskbar alignment etc but these 2 do not work.

I note that there is a per user reg key that you can apply for Right Click Menu;

[font=arial]New-Item -Path "HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" -Value "" -Force
[/font]

There is also a per user reg key for the search task bar icon but I do want to do a slightly different task bar as I also need to pin a few apps to the task bar which I cannot do within this tool.

HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search -Name SearchBoxTaskbarMode -Value 0 -Type DWord -Force

 

Hoping someone can help to as if it is possible as so far I haven't been able to and if not I can try merge it with the taskbar setting or something...One assumes that this may be the constant battle with windows 11 and it may all be reverted in an update anyway...

 

Dipl0