For Start Menu See: https://medium.com/@MrNick4B/deploy-a-customized-windows-11-start-menu-8832d90b25b1 1. Customzie the start menu 2. copy the \administrator\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\start2.bin to the \\k12wds\deploymentshare$\PostDeployFiles\Windows11\StartMenu Task to add to Install Subsection of Deploy Task Sequence: START MENU COPY: xcopy "%deployRoot%\PostDeployFiles\Windows11\StartMenu\start2.bin" "%OSDisk%\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\" /y TASKBAR COPY: xcopy "%deployroot%\PostDeployFiles\Windows11\Taskbar\TaskbarLayoutModification.xml" "%OSDisk%\Windows\Oem\" /y For customizing Task Bar See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/customize-the-windows-11-taskbar GPO to Remove Store from TaskBar: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar\Do not allow pinning Store app to the Taskbar. GPO to Remove Chat: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Component\Chat. Here you will find only one policy setting, which is “Configures the Chat icon on the taskbar“. Right-click this policy setting and select Edit Copy customized TaskbarLayoutmodification.xml to C:\Windows\OEM Add the following to the State Restore Section of Deploy Job under Custom Tasks: Run Command Line: Import Custom Taskbar Layout %deployroot%\PostDeployFiles\Windows11\Taskbar\Set-TaskbarLayout-Reg.bat Shouldn't need to run the following as administrator prior to capture: cmd /c reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ /v LayoutXMLPath /d C:\Windows\OEM\TaskbarLayoutModification.xml