Windows 11
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Deploy Windows 11 without all the pinned apps?
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Rikk
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In Windows 10, LayoutModification.xml can totally wipe all of the Start tiles, allowing me to have just the few specific to our users. Windows 11 switches to LayoutModification.json, which is fine, but it doesn't seem to let me wipe all the Pinned apps. How can I "clean slate" the Pinned apps and put my own choices there, preferably without having to sysprep? (these are all pre-existing Windows things)
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Reza-Ameri 16,866 Reputation points2021-09-04T15:14:24.02+00:00 I just want to verify that in the Windows 10, you would have been able to do this but this is not possible in Windows 11, is that correct?
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Rikk 11 Reputation points
2021-09-07T16:41:19.453+00:00 Hi, yes. In Windows 10 the LayoutModification.xml file appears to override the entire Start tile setup, so if it exists, it seems to clear all the tiles and then do whatever the file says.
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tnicolas02 1 Reputation point2021-09-21T12:25:53.167+00:00 -
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Burke, John 1 Reputation point2022-10-20T18:09:03.34+00:00 This isn't working for me at least for an already existing user. In my case i upgraded win10 pro to win11 pro and had all the bad apps there pinned already.
I've enabled all those policies and doesn't seem to work.
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