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

Anonymous
2020-05-20T21:09:14+00:00

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
2020-07-16T21:12:31+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2021-11-04T00:11:03+00:00


    This should be flagged as correct answer.

    You can remove this whole block, THEN! also do a ctl+f for "dragon" (for me it was first in the list) and delete that block as well, deleting this in the picture alone will not work, but success after deleting the dragon block above.

    this whole list/directory is enlightening, must be MSI standard for prebuilt msi machines, thank you so much. This is must have info that should be included as options or at least in some MSI documentation. Will report to MSI.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-09-11T02:05:38+00:00

    This worked for me, but instead of deleting the section I commented it out with <!-- CODE HERE -->

    Here is a section of my LayoutModification.xml file after I commented it out.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-09T19:58:28+00:00

    Hey! I had the same problem. What I did to solve this problem is pressing the windows key, Typing Xbox, When you see the Xbox App you will right click it then press uninstall

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