How to remove the shortcut to contact management on the taskbar

Windows 10 Creators Update Image

For a few months now that users around the world already enjoy Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The most recent update to Microsoft's operating system has reached some 600 million computers worldwide. Has left us with new features and improvements that are greatly appreciated. One of them is the direct access to contact management found on the taskbar.

It is a function that is quite discreet (many do not even know that it exists), but that it can be useful. Although for many other Windows 10 users it is not useful. For what maybe they want remove this access button direct. The good part is that it is possible.

Therefore, We are going to show you the way that you can eliminate this direct access to contact management. In this way, you have more free space on the taskbar. Space that you can use to your liking. What's more, this process is simple. We simply need to carry out a few steps.

First of all we have to access system settings. Therefore, we click on the button with the shape of a wheel in the start menu, the one that appears when clicking on the Windows symbol in the lower left part of the screen. When we have opened the configuration, we go to the customization section.

Personalization Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

We then access personalization and we get a new screen. On the left side there is a menu with various options. The last of these options that appear in this menu is the taskbar. So we have to click on this option. By doing this, you get a series of different sections. You have to go down and find the contacts option. Since that's the one we have to use.

Taskbar configuration

We see that the first of the options that we get is to show contacts in the taskbar. By default, this option is enabled. So our task is to simply disable this option. So we just have to press the button and deactivate it.

Thus, shortcut to contact management in the taskbar disappears. In case you want to activate it again in the future, the process is the same. From what you can see that it is easy to activate and deactivate this access to contacts that Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has entered.


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