Having searched Teh Interwebz to no avail, perhaps someone around here knows how to Permanently remove IE and Chrome icons from the task bar. They keep re-appearing after 20 minutes or so (I haven't timed it) despite:
Direct "Unpin from Taskbar" attempts
Removal from <user> AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar
Removal from <Admin> AppData/ etc
Removal using Admin account
Nothing in <Default> or <Owner>
Nothing in Startup
Nothing in RunOnce (registry)
Anybody have a clue?
Don't let other peoples limitations become your constraints!
I’m on the road right now and don’t use it everyday, but the first thing I thought of was ‘lock the Task Bar’, even though it doesn’t do what it used to... I’ll dig around this evening.
TazManiac wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:00 pm
I’m on the road right now and don’t use it everyday, but the first thing I thought of was ‘lock the Task Bar’, even though it doesn’t do what it used to... I’ll dig around this evening.
Yeah, first thing I did after removing them - nada. Lock the Task Bar prevents it from being expanded or moved, not freezes the contents, alas.
Don't let other peoples limitations become your constraints!
I’ve never run into that. My best guess would have been to uninstall with Revo, but you can’t kill IE, to the best of my knowledge. You can only lock it in the cupboard under the stairs and tell it to pretend it doesn’t exist.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
- Being way out in the Boonies right now, at the threadbare end of bandwidth... &
- I tried to boot into my dual-booting laptop, the one I converted recently from spinning Hard Drive w/ Linux & Win 7 to Linux & Win 10 on an SSD HD-
only to discover of the two Admin login accounts I'd created, I can't seem to recall the correct password spelling of either...
(insert Homer Simpson 'Doh!')
So, I'm going to give it another try, before I resort to breaking myself back into my own house so to speak, but, BUT-
lets keep in mind: Win 10 might have IE still, in there somewhere, but the current Big Blue 'E' is a slightly different program/browser called 'Edge'.
Atomic wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 5:17 pm
Having searched Teh Interwebz to no avail, perhaps someone around here knows how to Permanently remove IE and Chrome icons from the task bar. They keep re-appearing after 20 minutes or so (I haven't timed it)
Don't use Chrome?
That's my solution.
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
FWIW, the problem seems to have solved itself due to a series of USB error messages leading to a visit to the computer fixit shoppe and a clean install of Win 10.
Bleah, but no similar problems so far!
Don't let other peoples limitations become your constraints!