{"id":583,"date":"2018-09-09T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkadvantage.ch\/?p=583"},"modified":"2018-09-09T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:29:44","slug":"configure-win10-start-menu-and-tasklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Configure Win10 Start-Menu and Taskbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to overwrite the Taskbar Icons on all of my Devices. Overwriting the Start-Menu Icons is easy: Create a Startmenu that suits your needs and export it using export-StartmenuLayout. But what about the TaskBar?<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact you can add TaskBar Options to your Startmenu.xml created by export-StarmenuLayout but you have to do it manually!<\/p>\n<p>I did it and maybe it helps someone if I publish it, my Startmenulayout.xml looks like that:<\/p>\n<p>[sourcecode language=&#8221;xml&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;LayoutModificationTemplate<br \/>\nxmlns=&quot;http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/Start\/2014\/LayoutModification&quot;<br \/>\nxmlns:defaultlayout=&quot;http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/Start\/2014\/FullDefaultLayout&quot;<br \/>\nxmlns:start=&quot;http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/Start\/2014\/StartLayout&quot;<br \/>\nxmlns:taskbar=&quot;http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/Start\/2014\/TaskbarLayout&quot;<br \/>\nVersion=&quot;1&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;LayoutOptions StartTileGroupCellWidth=&quot;6&quot; StartTileGroupsColumnCount=&quot;1&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;DefaultLayoutOverride&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;StartLayoutCollection&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth=&quot;6&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;start:Group Name=&quot;&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;start:DesktopApplicationTile Size=&quot;2&#215;2&quot; Column=&quot;0&quot; Row=&quot;0&quot; DesktopApplicationLinkPath=&quot;%APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\System Tools\\File Explorer.lnk&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;start:DesktopApplicationTile Size=&quot;2&#215;2&quot; Column=&quot;2&quot; Row=&quot;0&quot; DesktopApplicationLinkPath=&quot;%APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Accessories\\Internet Explorer.lnk&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;start:DesktopApplicationTile Size=&quot;2&#215;2&quot; Column=&quot;4&quot; Row=&quot;0&quot; DesktopApplicationLinkPath=&quot;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Chrome.lnk&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/start:Group&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;start:Group Name=&quot;&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;start:DesktopApplicationTile Size=&quot;2&#215;2&quot; Column=&quot;0&quot; Row=&quot;0&quot; DesktopApplicationLinkPath=&quot;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Outlook 2016.lnk&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/start:Group&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/defaultlayout:StartLayout&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/StartLayoutCollection&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/DefaultLayoutOverride&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement=&quot;Replace&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;taskbar:TaskbarPinList&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath=&quot;%APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\System Tools\\File Explorer.lnk&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath=&quot;%APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Accessories\\Internet Explorer.lnk&quot; \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/taskbar:TaskbarPinList&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/LayoutModificationTemplate&gt;<\/p>\n<p>[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n<p>Important: The Header of the XML differs also from your normal Startlayout best way is to use this Including the Header and just change the Settings between defaultlayout:StartLayout and also between defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout!<\/p>\n<p>It all worked on Windows 10 1703 I haven&#8217;t gotten to any other Win10 Versions but will be soon on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to overwrite the Taskbar Icons on all of my Devices. Overwriting the Start-Menu Icons is easy: Create a Startmenu that suits your needs and export it using export-StartmenuLayout. But what about the TaskBar? As a matter of fact you can add TaskBar Options to your Startmenu.xml created by export-StarmenuLayout but you have to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,9],"tags":[29,33],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-clientmanagement","category-it","tag-client-management","tag-startmenu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphaeleymann.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}