There’s no “Pin Microsoft Edge to taskbar” wizard in Microsoft 10, other than the one you know and see when you look in the mirror ;-)

1. Microsoft Edge Taskbar Disappeared
2. Microsoft Edge Taskbar Hidden
3. Microsoft Edge Taskbar Pin
4. Microsoft Edge Taskbar Preview
5. Pin Microsoft Edge Taskbar
6. Hide Microsoft Edge Taskbar

If your Windows 10 doesn’t have the Microsoft Edge shortcut sitting on your taskbar, you’ll have to put it there yourself. Luckily that’s very easy to do. I’ll show you how in the next few easy steps. In an effort to explain the steps in a situation similar to yours, I’ve started out with a Windows 10 taskbar without the blue “e” Microsoft Edge icon:

Now, in order to pin Microsoft Edge to taskbar, simply click the Windows 10 start button right-click the Microsoft Edge tile in your start menu and select “Pin to taskbar”.

As soon as you pin Microsoft Edge to your Windows 10 taskbar using this method, you’ll notice the blue Edge icon on your taskbar. From now on you can launch Microsoft Edge with a single click on the Edge icon on your taskbar.

In the unlikely event that you don’t have a Microsoft Edge icon in your Windows 10 start menu, you can try the following, slightly different method to pin Microsoft Edge to taskbar. Please note that I have removed Microsoft Edge from my start menu in the screenshot below, as I am describing the steps to pin Microsoft Edge to your taskbar when Edge is missing from the Windows 10 start menu as well.
Click the Windows start button in the lower-left corner of your screen, which will bring up the Windows 10 start menu.

• Oct 30, 2017 Did you know you can now pin your websites to the taskbar while browsing in Microsoft Edge? With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, you can pin your favorite websites to the taskbar and have the icon show up in the taskbar for instant access.
• Following advertisements being run on Outlook website, Start Menu, and Windows Search, Microsoft is now adding advertisement or recommendation for Chromium Edge to the Windows 10’s Taskbar.
• The Microsoft Edge browser contains features and functionalities that were previously absent in the Internet Explorer browser. The browser currently is still a work in progress, so keep an eye out for updates by Microsoft. The menu bar, which is very popular with Microsoft Windows users, is a feature that is not inherently present in the.

Now, with the Windows 10 start menu on your display, simply start typing “edge” (without the quotes). This part may be just a tad confusing, as it feels as if you’re typing in a void. Don’t worry about the fact that there is no input field with a blinking cursor indicating where your text will appear. You’ll notice as soon as you start typing the letters “edge” that Windows’ search function will take over and show you a list with matches for your search. Immediately this list will show Microsoft Edge at the top, as illustrated in the image below.

Microsoft Edge Taskbar Disappeared

Now you can right-click the Microsoft Edge icon at the top of this list and select “Pin to taskbar” in order to secure the blue “e” Edge icon on your taskbar.

Also particular to those systems, if the taskbar is set to Always On Top, it will remain hidden only while the application is the foreground application. Adding Shortcuts to the Start Menu. To add an item to the Programs submenu on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and later, or Windows 95 or later, follow these steps.

Of course you can repeat the previous steps and select “Pin to start” as well if you want to put Microsoft Edge in a fixed location on your Windows 10 start menu as well.
Please note: if you use the above steps to pin Microsoft Edge to your start menu, Edge will probably appear all the way at the bottom of your start menu. If you’re not happy with its location in your start menu, please refer to my article on how to customize your Windows 10 start menu.

Pin Microsoft Edge To Taskbar At Another Position

Similarly, if you pin Microsoft Edge to your taskbar, you’ll probably notice that Windows puts it there as the last icon in the row (see image below).

If you don’t like this position or you want to move your Edge icon more to the left, simply click and drag the icon to your preferred location. As you drag, you’ll notice that the other icons on your Windows 10 taskbar move out of the way to make place for your Edge icon. You can drag the icon to any position you want, but please note that you won’t be able to drag anywhere past the “Task view” icon or the “Search Windows” icon on the left.

The image below shows the Microsoft Edge icon in its new location, in between the “Task View” icon and the Windows Explorer icon.
With the exception of the “Task View” icon and “Search Window” icon, you can drag and drop all icons on your task bar in the order you prefer.

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You can pin up to three additional apps to the taskbar. There are two methods to do this:

• Taskbar Layout Modification XML method (recommended)

  • Supports multivariant images; you can specify different sets of taskbar layouts for different regions.
  • Uses a single XML file.
  • Is the only method that allows you to add UWP apps to the taskbar.
  • In the examples below, the file name “TaskbarLayoutModification.xml” is used, however, you can choose any name you like.

• Classic Unattend method (still supported in Windows 10, but marked as deprecated, and may not be available in future builds)

  • Uses the Unattend setting: TaskbarLinks

Taskbar links and ordering

The taskbar starts with the following links: Start, Search, and Task View, plus four additional Windows-provided links: Mail, Edge, File Explorer, and Store. These pins cannot be removed or replaced.

OEMs can add up to three additional pinned apps to the taskbar.

For left-to-right languages, the taskbar icons are ordered from left to right (Start, Search, Task View, Windows-provided Pins, OEM-provided pins, Mail).For right-to-left languages, the taskbar icons are in the opposite order, with the right-most element being Start.

Add a default path

To use a Taskbar Layout Modification XML file in Windows, you’ll need to add a registry key (LayoutXMLPath) to the image, and then generalize and recapture the image. The registry key must be processed before the specialize configuration pass. This means you won’t be able to simply add the registry key by using Synchronous Commands/FirstLogonCommands unless you plan to generalize the image afterwards.

We recommend using the file location C:WindowsOEMTaskbarLayoutModification.xml, because this is the default path used for Push-button reset auto-apply folders.

The other shortcut files, apps, and the Taskbar Layout Modification file itself can be changed at any time through regular imaging techniques. You can add this registry key to all your images, even if you intend to add taskbar links using the Classic Unattend method.

Configure taskbarlayoutmodification.xml

1. Install the Windows image to a technician computer.

2. After the image boots, go into audit mode by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+F3.

3. Add the following registry key to define a default location for the Taskbar Layout Modification file:

   cmd /c reg add HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer /v LayoutXMLPath /d C:WindowsOEMTaskbarLayoutModification.xml

4. Add a Taskbar Layout Modification file (TaskbarLayoutModification.xml) in the default location, for example: C:WindowsOEMTaskbarLayoutModification.xml. We also recommend placing a backup copy of the file at C:RecoveryAutoApplyTaskbarLayoutModification.xml so it will be restored during a push-button reset.

5. Generalize the Windows image using Sysprep:

   Sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown

6. Boot to Windows PE.

7. Recapture the image. For example:

   Dism /Capture-Image /CaptureDir:C: /ImageFile:c:install-with-new-taskbar-layout.wim /Name:'Windows image with Taskbar layout'

8. You can now apply this image to other PCs.

To reference your apps

• For Classic Windows applications, use shortcut (.lnk) files. We recommend using the same shortcut .lnk files in the All Users Start menu. Example:

• For Universal Windows apps, use the Universal Windows app user model ID. Example:

  UWA AppUserModelID='Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App'

To use different layouts for different regions

To use different layouts for different regions, include a region in the defaultlayout tag. These regions use the second half of the language/region tags listed in Available Language Packs for Windows. You can use multiple region tags separated by a pipe (|) character. Here is an example of adding pins to the Chinese (PRC) and Chinese (Taiwan) regions:

Microsoft Edge Taskbar Hidden

How Windows parses the setting for Unattend and Taskbar Layout Modification XML

While you’re transitioning to the new method to customize the taskbar, you may end up using existing images that still include your old Unattend TaskbarLinks settings. When that happens:

1. If Windows finds a valid Taskbar Layout Modification XML file, it uses the XML file, and ignores any of the Unattend taskbar settings.
2. If the Taskbar Layout Modification XML file isn't found, or is invalid, Windows looks for the old Unattend TaskbarLinks settings. If it finds them, it uses them.
3. If Windows can't find either a valid Taskbar Layout Modification XML file, or Unattend TaskbarLink settings, then only the Windows-provided pins and Start, Search, and Task View are shown.

Set transparency for the taskbar

The default transparency setting for the taskbar is 15%. To make Taskbar work with the Dark Mode on OLED displays, you need to set the taskbar transparency to 40%.

Microsoft Edge Taskbar Pin

To set the transparency for the Taskbar, create a registry key called “UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency” and place it in the following location:

HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced

Microsoft Edge Taskbar Preview

Important

This registry key should only be used to change the taskbar transparency for OLED screens. We do not advise changing the default transparency on non-OLED displays.

Action Center

Pin Microsoft Edge Taskbar

Most quick action tiles that are pinned in the Action Center are not customizable. You can, however, enable one of the desktop quick action tiles, Color Profile, if more than one color profile is installed on the device. By default, this quick action tile is not available. To let users see Color Profile in the Action Center:

Hide Microsoft Edge Taskbar

1. Install at least two ICC color profiles on the primary display. For more information on how to accomplish this, please work with your Microsoft representative.

2. Add the following registry key to enable the Microsoft.QuickAction.ColorProfile quick action:HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShellOEMQuickActionsColorProfileQuickAction = 0x1 (DWORD)