In certain laptops\/desktops, you will be able to see a few apps keep pining themselves to the taskbar after each reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, this happens in my MSI-manufactured Windows 11 laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do the following to fix this annoyance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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• Once you have logged into your Windows 11 operating system<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Press “Win + R” keys<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Type in “%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Shell”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• This will open up the folder “Shell”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Within the folder, you will find a file named “LayoutModification.xml”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Create a copy of that file and rename it to “LayoutModification-Original.xml.bak”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Now open that file with the “Notepad” app.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Search for the word “CustomTaskbar” and you should be able to see the following lines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>\n    <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>\n      <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>\n        <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="9426MICRO-STARINTERNATION.DragonCenter_kzh8wxbdkxb8p!App" \/>\n        <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="9426MICRO-STARINTERNATION.CreatorCenter_kzh8wxbdkxb8p!App" \/>\n\t\t<taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="9426MICRO-STARINTERNATION.BusinessCenter_kzh8wxbdkxb8p!App" \/>\n\t\t<taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="9426MICRO-STARINTERNATION.MSICenter_kzh8wxbdkxb8p!App" \/>\n        <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.GamingApp_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Microsoft.Xbox.App" \/>\n      <\/taskbar:TaskbarPinList>\n    <\/defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>\n <\/CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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  In the above case, there are 5 line items (4,5,6,7 & 8) which start the relevant apps.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  Remove the necessary lines and save the file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
  <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>\n    <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>\n      <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>\n      <\/taskbar:TaskbarPinList>\n    <\/defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>\n <\/CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
  Reboot the system and those apps shouldn’t pin themselves in the next restart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
  In certain laptops\/desktops, you will be able to see a few apps keep pining themselves to the taskbar after each reboot. For me, this happens in my MSI-manufactured Windows 11 laptop. Do the following to fix this annoyance. Reboot the system and those apps shouldn’t pin themselves in the next restart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[209],"yoast_head":"\n