Configure Windows 10 taskbar (new Anniversary Update feature)

[Arthur]

There's a new way to pin apps to the taskbar in the Enterprise or Education editions...

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/configure-windows-10-taskbar

 

Starting in Windows 10, version 1607, administrators can pin additional apps to the taskbar and remove default pinned apps from the taskbar by adding a section to a layout modification XML file. This method never removes user-pinned apps from the taskbar.

 

You can specify different taskbar configurations based on device locale and region. There is no limit on the number of apps that you can pin. You specify apps using the Application User Model ID (AUMID) or Desktop Application Link Path (the local path to the application).

 

If you specify an app to be pinned that is not installed on the computer, it won't appear on the taskbar.

 

The order of apps in the xml file dictates order of apps on taskbar from left to right, to the right of any existing apps pinned by user.

 

Remove default apps and add your own

By adding PinListPlacement="Replace" to , you remove all default pinned apps; only the apps that you specify will be pinned to the taskbar.

 

If you only want to remove some of the default pinned apps, you would use this method to remove all default pinned apps and then include the default app that you want to keep in your list of pinned apps.

 

 

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification"
   xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout"
   xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout"
   xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout"
   Version="1">

 
   
     
       
       
       
       
       
     
   
 

Edited August 2, 2016 by Arthur

[Homer]

Wow, that is really useful. I am building a W10 image at the moment.

 

I may pull the trigger... or I may just leave it for remote desktop

 

We'll see

[gshaw]

About time too, wanted a proper MS method of doing this since Win7 days