How to Hide the Search / Task Buttons on the Windows 10 Taskbar

You would believe that Microsoft would have gained from their Windows 8 slip-ups of compelling loathsome peculiarities down individuals' throats, yet it would seem that they've incorporated a decidedly terrible Search catch/ board into the Taskbar. Here's the way to shroud it utilizing a registry hack. 

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Also once more, this peculiarity is horrible, and you ought to utilize the Feedback application to tell Microsoft exactly how imbecilic it is that you can't turn this thing off. 

Note: we did contact some person at Microsoft who said that it's impractical to handicap it at this minute. 

Overhaul: there is another strategy that uses a registry key, so we've redesigned the article with that system. You can likewise utilize this strategy to uproot the Task View catch also, so we've clarified that beneath.

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Removing Both Buttons the Easy Way

Don't waste time hacking the registry unless you truly need to. You can simply download the reg hack document that handicaps the catches. Unzip and twofold click on the .reg documents that you need to utilize.

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Download the RemoveStupidButtons reg hack from howtogeek.com

Don't waste time hacking the registry unless you genuinely need to. You can basically download the reg hack record that incapacitates the gets. Unzip and twofold click on the .reg reports that you have to use.

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Removing the Stupid Search Button

Pop open the Start menu and sort Regedit into the hunt box, and hit the Enter key. When you've navigated the UAC brief, search down to the accompanying registry key: 

Hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion 

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Once there, right-click on Current version and make a New -> Key.

Name that key "Hunt" without the quotes, obviously.

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Presently right-click on the privilege hand side, and after that make another 32-bit DWORD and name it Enable proactive, and leave the quality set to 0.

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Presently you can log off and over on, and the inquiry catch ought to be gone. To return the catch, erase the esteem that you recently included.

Hide the Task View Button from the Windows 10 Taskbar

Utilizing the registry proofreader as we said above, scan down to this key: 

Hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer 

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And afterward make a "Multitaskingview" key under that one, the same way we did in the recent past, and after that under that one, make an "All view" key. When you are carried out, make a 32-bit DWORD on the privilege hand side, call it Enabled, and leave the quality set to 0. The finished result ought to resemble this:

Right now, the Task View catch ought to likewise be gone.

And to put the button back, delete the value you just added.

The Old Method (Don’t Use)

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What we can do is utilize a speedy script to drive that catch to conceal itself, yet so far we haven't made sense of how to make it fall, so you'll wind up with some moronic whitespace. When we make sense of that, we'll make sure to upgrade with a superior adaptation.

The principal thing you'll have to do is download and introduce AutoHotkey, which is, fortunately, simple to introduce, amazingly lightweight, and our script won't use up any memory since it runs, shrouds the catch, and afterward closes itself. 

Open up a document voyager window and sort shell: startup into the location bar, and afterward right-click and make a New -> AutoHotkey Script.

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Right-click and decide to alter the script, and glue this into the end: 

Control, Hide, Search, ahk_class Shell_traywnd 

When you are carried out it ought to resemble this:

Spare, passageway, twofold click on the script, and the Search catch ought to be immediately gone. Unfortunately, the vacant space will at present be there.