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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 3:28 PM
Hi,
I haven't been able to find a way to remove the windows store icon from our Windows 10 image that we are deploying. I remove it from the master image but it comes back once a user installs windows 10 and logs in. We want to keep the windows store application but just not have it available on the taskbar. Is this possible through a task sequence step or GPO?
TIA
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 7:50 AM âś…Answered
Try this gpo(restart):
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar\Do not allow pinning Store app to the Taskbar
Best regards
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 3:51 PM
Hi,
Check this, it is based on replacing the Edge Icon with the IE icon but you can adapt it to remove the Store icon.
http://ccmexec.com/2015/12/customizing-the-taskbar-in-windows-10-during-osd/
Gerald
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 3:54 PM
Thank you for the reply, I am already using this exact script to remove edge and add IE but the store icon still remains. You said I can adapt something into this to remove the store icon? Not sure how I would do this, my source folder for this script/package does not include any windows store icons etc. Would I need to add some powershell code? TIA
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 4:09 PM
I didn't test with the Store icon because in final, we found that we can't remove completely the Store without have problems and users can attach it again because it's in the All Apps.
And because it's new, they will do it ^^
I'll test it tomorrow if someone has not posted a working solution
Gerald
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 5:36 PM
Ok thank you, yeah we don't want to remove the store application completely just remove it from the taskbar. Thanks again for your assistance.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 6:06 PM
you can use Powershell.
$App= Get-AppxPackage ("Microsoft.WindowsStore").PackageFullName
Remove-AppxPackage $App
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename $App
save the script as remstore.ps1
run Command prompt
Powershell.exe -executionploicy bypass -command remstore.ps1
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 6:32 PM
Thank you but this will remove the entire store application correct? I just don't want the shortcut on the taskbar is all. TIA
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 7:10 PM
uh, i see. Windows ICD has SHOWWINDOWSStoreAppsOnTaskbar but not sure if that will remove the App store itself.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:40 PM
Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar - great idea! Now could someone tell me wtf this means and why it should be virtually impossible to remove one icon while all the others follow the same protocol?
Thursday, March 29, 2018 2:07 PM
Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar - great idea! Now could someone tell me wtf this means and why it should be virtually impossible to remove one icon while all the others follow the same protocol?
that refers to a location in Group Policy. in a domain environment, an admin may choose to configure settings in that location for a wide array of devices with a single setting.
taskbar management is really frustrating, honestly.