Windows – Remove Chrome’s Most Visited Icon on Taskbar (not the tabs)

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In Windows, when you right click the Chrome startup icon pinned to the task bar, it presents you with a list of pinned sites, and one icon as the "Most Visited" site. In Windows 8 I could delete it with a right click, but in Windows 10 this functionality disappeared.

Sometimes I really don't want that to appear, like on a telco or something. But searching only brings up posts dealing with the "Most Visited" tab, which are relatively easy to change. I included a screenshot where the icon is a link to "Business Insi". Note that I have my taskbar on the left side of my screen which is a bit unusual.

I could find nothing in the registry, but I suspect Chrome doesn't use it.

Update:

I can't believe I have find nothing about this after a couple of months of on and off looking. If anyone can tell me where this is being managed (Chrome? Taskbar code?, Desktop?), it would be a start.

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Best Answer

Omkar Sawant provided the following answer at Google Product Forums:

  1. Open Taskbar and Start Menu Properties by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Taskbar and Start Menu.

  2. Click the Start Menu tab, and then do one of the following:

    • To prevent recently opened programs from appearing in the Start menu, clear the Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu check box.

    • To clear recently opened files in the Jump Lists on the taskbar and Start menu, clear the Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar check box.

  3. Click OK.

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