Steps 2, 3 and 4 in OblyTile indicated by arrowsĤ. In the 'Manager' section, click the 'Create shortcuts for Windows Apps' button (the button with the Windows logo). Click the 'Open Tile Manager' button in its top right corner.ģ. Download and run OblyTile from the XDA developers forumĢ. Here are the step-by-step instructions.ġ.
OblyTile lets you create a shortcut to a Modern app on your desktop that you can move or pin anywhere like the Taskbar or inside your favorite Start Menu replacement.Īdvertisement Let's start.
Modern (Metro) apps have an AppID, stored in their shortcut (the AppID concept was introduced in Windows 7). OblyTile includes a launcher lets you launch Modern (Metro) apps from anywhere on the Desktop. Even Desktop apps can have a custom static tile image instead of just a regular icon. OblyTile lets you pin a shortcut to anything you want on the Start screen with a custom image of your choice. OblyTile is a little tool that allows you to do two things: Here's how you can do it easily with the help of a free third party tool, called OblyTile. The method didn't work for additional Store-installed apps. There have been a few articles written by various websites covering how to do this but they only deal with the built-in Modern Apps. Microsoft did not make this possible out of the box. One of the most anticipated and highly desired features lacking in Windows 8 is the ability to pin Modern (Metro) apps to the taskbar. Of default pinned items.RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows issues and optimize system performance Other people have created scripts to do it which you could use as a starting point for a script that would run only once for each new user profile and create a set Pinning shortcuts to the TaskBar using a programmatic technique isn't supported. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\ What you may consider doing instead is to stop Chrome's just-in-time setup from running by renaming its StubPath registry value to StubPath.bak, similar to below: In theory you can suppress it by editing the master_preferences file as described below ("do_not_create_quick_launch_shortcut":true), however, I've not been The Chrome taskbar shortcut is created by Chrome's just-in-time setup code. Ren "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" "File-Explorer.lnk" Ren "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Windows PowerShell.lnk" "Windows-PowerShell.lnk" Ren "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Server Manager.lnk" "Server-Manager.lnk" You might consider renaming the above to something else, for example, like this in admin command prompt: The default pinned taskbar shortcuts are copied from the following files by default:Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Server Manager.lnkĬ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\Windows PowerShell.lnkĬ:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk I am not worried that the users will do any damage if they use one of these shortcuts, since I am sure they would have little, if any, actual rights within the application I just want to minimize the clutter and potential for stray clicks orīoredom getting them into places they should not see.
User registry hive reveals nothing that I can see as being relevant.
But a search of C:\Users\Default and the default Sure, the user can right-click and delete them, but that is not the point I want to prevent them. We are also seeing the Server Manager, PowerShell, and Windows Explorer showing up on the taskbar. Nor am I interested in a post-user-profile creation cleanup script I want to find and prevent this at the source. We are not interested in blocking users from pinning things there themselves, only controlling what appears there upon first logon. We want to predefine what is there, or, if nothing else, ensure that nothing shows up there by default. But we rely on the shortcut on the Public Desktop to ensure everyone has access and do not want it automatically cluttering the taskbar for every new How can I preconfigure which icons are pinned to the taskbar by default for new users?įor example, after we installed Chrome, it now automatically shows up on the taskbar as new users log on.
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