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Tony Polanco

MYSTERIOUS: How to remove chat from the windows 11 taskbar - What They Never Told You

A Windows 11 laptop, demonstrating how to run Android apps on Windows 11

The Windows 11 taskbar comes with several items built into it, including Task View, Widgets and Chat. The latter provides quick access to Microsoft Teams, which could be handy if you frequently use the company’s messaging app. However, if you don’t use Teams often or at all, having the Chat icon on your taskbar could be pointless. Thankfully, you can remove Chat from the taskbar.

The good news is that removing Chat from the Windows 11 taskbar is an easy affair. There are three ways to accomplish this and we’ll go over each step by step. We’ll also show you how to get rid of the other baked-in items mentioned above.

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