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Remove icons pinned to TaskBar by group policy

From  Remove icons pinned to TaskBar by group policy (microsoft.com)  (...) Hi, Before we go further, I would like to confirm the following questions: Whether you need delete all pinned icons or just the two icons but keep others? As you said:“  remove icons pinned to TaskBar by group policy ” in the title and “ I have stopped and disabled Group Policy service from running and manually removed or changed most of the settings in the Registry ”. I couldn’t understand it clearly, whether you mean that you don’t want use group policy? Here is the test result in my lab: Based on my research and test, the pinned icons are stored in two locations: In the File System, stored shortcut files under  %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar . In the Registry, stored configuration under  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband. We could delete the shortcut directly, but it will keep an invalid icon on the ta...

How to fix extarnal monitor going to sleep

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Sources: English Community-Lenovo Community (External Monitor Looses Signal Intermittently ) Power controls | Microsoft Learn 1. Regedit 2. Go to  Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues\381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e 3. Set the values as follows to change to 20 minutes (1200 seconds): Ver tb este: (???) Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99\3c0bc021-c8a8-4e07-a973-6b14cbcb2b7e

File Explorer Quick Access has Recent Folders pinned but it vanishes

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From  File Explorer Quick Access has Recent Folders pinned but it vanishes.. Solved - Windows 10 Forums (tenforums.com) (...)  I agree that showing only "Recent Folders" is better and less cluttered than the "Recent Items" in Windows 10. I can tell you that  Recent   Folders exists in Windows 10 , but it is  hidden  and needs to be revived.  Part 1:  How to get Recent Folders displaying in Windows 10 permanently: 1)  Start a Run dialog box by either right-clicking the Start button and choose Run, or by pressing the WinKey + R keys. 2)  Copy and paste the following line into the Run dialog box, then press Enter: shell:::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99} 3)  File Explorer will open and display the "Recent folders". You'll see that it is located below the Recycled Bin on the left hand side of the screen. 4)  Right-click "Recent folders" and select "Pin to Quick Access". You can also select "Pin to Start" if you want. Whe...