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The Windows 8.1 update added some new features. You can now also attach Windows store applications to the taskbar. Each time these modern applications run, you will see their icon in the taskbar. This facilitates the transition from one application to another directly from the desktop.
Show or hide Windows Store applications on the taskbar
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However, if you wish, you can disable this feature and prevent Windows Store applications from appearing on the Windows 8.1 taskbar. Updating Windows 8.1 provides exactly such a setting.
To access this setting, right-click the Windows 8.1 taskbar button and select Properties. Under the Taskbar tab, you will see a new setting – Show Windows Store applications on the Taskbar, which is enabled by default. Clear the check box and click Apply.
Windows Store applications no longer display their icons on the taskbar when they run.
The modified registry key is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
A value of 1 for StoreAppsOnTaskbar displays the application on the taskbar while a value of 0 disables the icon on the taskbar.
If you do, you may not see the Minimize option for Windows Store applications. However, you will still see the’Close X’ button and you can still pin these applications to the taskbar.
To prevent users from associating Windows Store applications with the taskbar, you must change group policy settings. We’ll talk about it tomorrow.
After using the Windows 8.1 update, you will also notice behavior changes. If you now close the Windows Store application, you will be redirected to the previously used application. If you close all Windows Store applications, you will be redirected to the desktop.
The Windows 8.1 or KB2919355 update is already available for Windows 8.1 users, and we hope you have already installed it. In the next update for Windows 8.1, Microsoft should bring the Start menu back to this operating system!
Review this message to learn how to use group policy if you do not want to allow the Store application to attach to the taskbar under Windows 8.1.
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In Windows 10, when you reduce the Store application, its icon will automatically appear in the taskbar.
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