XP Home: Registry Edit to Disable Taskbar Modifications

Contributed by William_Wilson March 21, 2006  
Tagged: Windows

How to disable all taskbar modifications in Windows XP Home. This will disable the option to unlock the taskbar.

It has come to my attention that XP home is missing a few registry folders and options that Pro has, so here’s a modification for XP Home that prevents taskbar modifications.

If you are not comfortable editing the registry, please don’t try this.

First, right click the system tray and check Lock Taskbar first.

Next, open Regedit and go to path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer
and create a DWORD key: LockTaskBar double click and set value to 1

Now the option to unlock the taskbar is not available!

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)