Guide: Start Menu and Taskbar

[Hellbovine]

I found the problem haha, the key that's in your tweaks folder is in the wrong path...

Thank you, and nice catch! I updated the tweaks folder in the original post to correct that.

 

[tortadefrango97]

I had to add a group policy (GPO) key to get it disabled since the other key that you mentioned gets overwritten at some point. This GPO is in the tweaks folder already though, and Windows shouldn't be resetting or ignoring GPO keys, but this is the nature of the beast sometimes. Check and see if this key got deleted:

; Taskbar > News and interests > Disabled
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Feeds]
"EnableFeeds"=dword:00000000

Hey Hellbovine

Just updating, I happened to find another topic right here on the forum (https://www.ntlite.com/community/index.php?threads/news-and-interests.2230/#post-18525) where the guy managed to disable the 'news and interests' without using a group policy key just adding the value "HeadlinesOnboardingComplete", I tested it here and it really works, even for new users, I thought you would like to know since you prefer not to mess with the policies too much.

 

[layer8tech]

Is there an easy way to create 3 pinned icons in the "Taskbar" for Word, Excel and Powerpoint to an image?

 

[garlin]

You can't pin icons for apps which haven't been installed yet. Technically you could make a default layout XML, which includes pinned apps but that would probably look weird if you didn't install Office in Post-Setup, prior to your first logon.

There's different PS or VBS scripts for pinning icons, but again the target has exist first.