Apps keep pinning themselves on startup to the task bar, how do I stop this?

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Whenever I boot up my laptop MSI dragon center and xbox (beta) would be pinned to the task bar. I had to unpin everytime I use my laptop. How do I put an end to this? Please help. Thanks

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Anonymous

This solved the problem for me.

https://superuser.com/questions/1460439/icons-automatically-pinned-to-taskbar-after-every-reboot-in-windows-10

C:\Users(youruserhere)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\LayoutModification.xml

Looking for this line

CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="Replace"

I did a ctrl+f and searched "custom"

Found the lines with xbox app and dragon center app

Removed them and saved xml

Rebooted and they didnt show back up.

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Anonymous

2020-12-14T16:52:28+00:00

I don't have dragon center but the Xbox (beta) app does the SAME thing. It's so annoying
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Anonymous

2020-10-06T05:38:36+00:00

Yey! This worked! Thanks
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Anonymous

2020-08-07T23:52:49+00:00

I have the same problem! but instead of MSI Dragon Center, the one that would always be pinned to my task bar is MSI Creator Center. My laptop is Modern 14B4MW bought it 3 days ago and yeah I also think this is an MSI issue rather than windows itself.
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