Remove the People Bar from the taskbar

This policy allows you to remove the People Bar from the taskbar and disables the My People experience.

If you enable this policy the people icon will be removed from the taskbar, the corresponding settings toggle is removed from the taskbar settings page, and users will not be able to pin people to the taskbar.

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 Version 1703

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value NameHidePeopleBar
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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