Prevent Changes to Taskbar and Start Menu Settings using GPO

You can place your program icons in start menu itself C:-Documents and Settings-All Users-Start Menu. By placing in All users start menu, you will have ...

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.

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

Is there a way to deploy the links as icons pinned to the task bar for every (future) user? I mean like the 'public desktop' thing, just with the task bar?

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 ...

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 ...

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- ...

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 ...

Been trying to solve this one for a while. Turns out Hiding the taskbar can be done in the registry as per https://winaero.com/blog/make-taskbar-auto-hide- ...

They are stored in C:-Users-<User name>-AppData-Roaming-Microsoft-Internet Explorer-Quick Launch-User Pinned-TaskBar for each user.