Is there anyway to remove Internet Explorer from the taskbar via GPO?  I don't want to remove the option of pinning items to the taskbar or remove all of the items, I just want to remove IE.

Thanks

> Is there anyway to remove Internet Explorer from the taskbar via GPO?   Yes: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/549865-vbs-script-for-pin-and-unpinning-taskbar-icons  

Hi sskasko,

As far as I know there dont have the GPO can unpin a program from taskbar, we can also use the following script.

Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx

More information:

Group Policy Settings for Start Menu and Taskbar

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617162%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

You can still unpin a program from the taskbar unexpectedly when you enable the "Do not allow pinning programs to the Taskbar" Group Policy on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/981177?wa=wsignin1.0

Im glad to be of help to you!