Windows 10: How to remove the pinned "Microsoft 365 Apps" from Win10 Start?

After setup my computer with Windows 10 and office apps, a category "Microsoft 365 Apps" of pinned icons appear in Start menu. Like below.I hope to remove them and re-orginze my apps in Start menu, but it seems this category is locked. I cannot unpin, rename or re-order them. How can I unlock it?

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Can't remove pinned office applications

My laptop is a Dell Precision 7510, running Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprice 64bit (10.0.15063 Build 15063) and Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus (1701 Build 7766.2092).

My problem is, that beside some useful apps on my taskbar, office has also pinned Word, Excel and PowerPoint. I would like to remove these 3 pinned apps. When unpinning them, they actually disappear, but after next restart (or restart of explorer.exe) they reaper as if nothing had happened.

I have tried following this "guide":
Redirecting

I have seen the above suggestion posted on several sites, but unfortunately it doesn't help in my case.

When executing the script (or preforming the steps manually) all is removed, but after explorer.exe restart below icons always reaper:

• File Explorer
  
• Internet Explorer
  
• Outlook 2016
  
• PowerPoint 2016
  
• Word 2016
  
• Excel 2016
  

Other apps pinned at the time is removed as intended.

Does anyone have a suggestion to how I can remove these unwanted office apps from my taskbar? And why do above list or apps reapear after deleting them from both the %APPDATA% folder and REGEDIT?

Thanks in advance.

 

Microsoft 365 PIN number

Hi Greg,

This is Wil, one of the independent advisor and an expert with Windows 10.

I understand your concern with Pin number during installation of Office 365.

It is actually asking for the Windows 10 Pin. Try to follow the steps on this link to remove the pin.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6518-remove...

I hope my suggestions help you. If you need further assistance please do reply back and I will respond as quickly as possible. Have a nice day.

Thanks,

Wilfred P.

Independent Advisor

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Query re pinning and unpinning apps to taskbar

Pinning an app to taskbar does not remove it from Start all apps list. It list in Start under letter M as in Microsoft Edge, you should find it there even when it is pinned to taskbar.