Lock Task Bar Permanently in Windows

More often than never, some frustrating circumstances may arise. You spend a lot of your precious moments to add some of your most favorite programs to the start menu. Besides, you have pinned  some of your personal important applications to the Start Menu and locked it.

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But what if  your friend or relative who happens to use your machine completely changes all your saved settings in the task bar?? You are now in a fix. Locking the task bar or Unlocking it is just a click away!! We at Tech-Tips-Geek show you how to lock your task bar permanently so that only you can use it.

Below are some specific guidelines to carry out this process to make you more efficient. Check this out..

Perform all the tasks to be done and then move your cursor to the Start Menu, right-click and Lock the Task bar.

Step 1.
Go to Start >Run and then type “regedit”.

Step 2.
This is the most important step of them all. Carefully navigate to the following:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\Explorer

Step 3.
Once you are done with this, right-click anywhere in the right pane of registry editor. Click on New and select New >Dword value. Always remember to rename the key as “LockTaskbar”.

Step 4.
Move your cursor to this recently created user entry, erase the previous value “0″ and put in a new value “1″, as described in the figure below.

Step 5.
Close the window,i.e. the registry editor.

Now, your task bar feature has been permanently disabled from being affected of any changes. Even right-clicking on the task bar shows “Lock Task Bar” menu has been disabled. You are now on the track of keeping all your personal applications pinned to the Start Menu without letting anyone even know about it.

However, this feature enables you to lock task bar for the currently logged in user. If the user accesses any other account to log into your machine, he/she is still capable of making alterations in your task bar.

Important: If you chance to make your alterations in your TaskBar again, just rechange the value in the registry editor from “0″  to “1″.