Some users do not need the option “Pin to taskbar” in right click context menu in Windows 7. This option unnecessarily makes the right click context menu bigger for them. In that case, user may want to remove ”Pin to taskbar” option. In this tutorial, we will show, how to remove pin to taskbar option from right click option menu.
Note: Please take a manual backup of your registry before you proceed.
Click Start button, type “regedit” (without the quotation marks) and press Enter from keyboard. Accept the security prompt to run Windows registry editor:
Go to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Classes /* / shellex / ContextMenuHandlers /{90AA3A4E-1CBA-4233-B8BB-535773D48449} :
Simply, delete the key {90AA3A4E-1CBA-4233-B8BB-535773D48449}.
There will be no Pin to taskbar option in right click context menu now:
In case, you want to get back the Pin to Taskbar again, just download this rar file, double click the registry file inside to run it. Pin to Taskbar will be back again. The zip file contains two registry files: one to enable the Pin to Taskbar in right click context menu, another to remove the option pin to Taskbar from right click context menu.











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