How to pin and unpin all application from Windows 10

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Originally published at: How to pin and unpin all application from Windows 10

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Can you elaborate? the script will unpin the applications from the start.

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Thank you for sharing your script

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Are these Microsoft Games?

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It worked for me at least majority of the tiles have been unpinned. For some reason I can’t see to get 4 games unpinned. I have worded them correctly, but still doesn’t want to unpin them.

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This script will remove all existing Pins from OOB win10
I run it once in a user GPO

Remove ALL current Apps from Start tile Pin location

Remove all $AppNames String array from taskbar Pin location

$ComObj = (New-Object -Com Shell.Application).NameSpace(‘shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}’)
$AppNames = “edge|stor|mai”
#use the match to limit the apps removed from start tiles
#$ComObjItem = $ComObj.Items() | ?{$_.Name -match $AppNames}
$ComObjItem = $ComObj.Items()
ForEach ($Obj in $ComObjItem) {
Write-Host "$(“Checking " + $Obj.name)” -ForegroundColor Cyan
ForEach ($Verb in $Obj.Verbs()) {
Write-Host "$(“Verb: " + $Verb.name)” -ForegroundColor white
If (($Verb.name -match ‘Un.*pin from Start’)) {
Write-Host "$(“Ok " + $Obj.name + " contains " + $Verb.name)” -ForegroundColor Red
$Verb.DoIt()
}
If (($Verb.name -match ‘Un.*pin from tas&kbar’) -And ($Obj.name -match $AppNames)) {
Write-Host "$(“Ok " + $Obj.name + " contains " + $Verb.name)” -ForegroundColor Red
$Verb.DoIt()
}
}#End Foreach Object.Verb
} #End Foreach object

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Not working for me. Says app is unpinned, while it still exists in the start menu. Maybe I missed something?

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Is there a way to control which group the pin goes to? And remote users

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Did the change work for you?

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There is a bug in your script. The condition if it was sucssefully should be $flag -eq 1 not $flag=1