Google Chrome not removing from Task Bar

Hello All,

I am using below action script to remove Google chrome from end users systems. Fixlet is removing Google Chrome from control panel and registry but google chrome is still pinged in task bar.

When I click on google chrome shortcut icon on the task bar it says this application no more exist and after that chrome is removed from task bar too. Is there a way So, that we can remove the Google Chrome completely without any piece of it left behind.

Action script used waithidden taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe

override wait hidden=true completion=job wait {value “UninstallString” of keys whose (value “DisplayName” of it as string starts with "Mozilla Firefox " and value “UninstallString” of it as string contains “uninstall\helper.exe”) of keys “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall” of (x32 registries; x64 registries)} /S

Are you sure you’re removing Chrome? That script removes Firefox.

In any case, taskbar pins are a per-user thing. I would not expect an application uninstaller to walk each user profile to unpin items.

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Oh sorry by mistake I have pasted Mozilla Firefox action script.
Thanks for your response.So,here is the conclusion if pin is user based it can’t be removed.

It could be removed, but it has to be removed from user profiles, which is not as easy as removing it from the computer as a whole. I’m not certain without doing research if this is in the registry or if it is in a file in the user profile somewhere.

You might need something that detects this is the case when a user logs in, then cleans it up then.

Another option would be to use Local GPO or regular GPO, but that actually would be a problem if chrome is ever installed again in the future.

Another option might be to have something that goes and cleans it up from every user profile on the system currently if any need cleaned up.

This is definitely not the easiest thing to resolve, but there are definitely options.

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