Restore Taskbar to Default Settings in a Few Easy Steps!

What is the best way to set the default taskbar settings for all users on a machine without group policy?

In Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education, you can use a Group Policy Object (GPO) to deploy a customized Start and taskbar layout to users in a domain.

Go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar. For advanced customizations and when you need to configure multiple devices, you can use one of the ...

The configuration of the applications pinned to the taskbar is done with the use of an XML file. This article describes how to create and deploy the XML ...

I have found out, that I can change them for the current User by adding these registry items in this path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Software-Microsoft-Windows- ...

You can add and delete items from all users default start menu by navigating to C:-ProgramData-Microsoft-Windows-Start Menu- you can change items on here like ...

This tutorial demonstrates how to set a default Start layout for users in Windows 10 by exporting and importing a Start menu layout using an XML file.

This article Configure and customize Windows 11 taskbar says to configure the XML and then set it via Group Policy but my engineer says this doesn't work.

I need to be able to pin some taskbar items for all users. In the good old days I would have just made this part of the default user and everyone would have ...

Once you have the Start layout how you like it, you can pick up at step 2 in the tutorial below to specify a Start layout for all users in Windows 10 as well.