There are two ways you can disable the people icon: either from taskbar or by editing the registry. Method 1 Right-click the taskbar and then uncheck ' Show People on the task bar '. The people icon will no more be visible. This policy allows you to remove the People Bar from the taskbar and disables the My People experience. If you enable this policy the people icon will be removed from the taskbar, the corresponding settings toggle is removed from the taskbar settings page, and users will not be able to pin people to the taskbar. So that's how to remove the picture from the Chrome icon. In case you want others to use the Chrome browser on your PC, but you don't like the concept of showing an image on the icon.
Click on the People icon in your taskbar and you’ll be shown a list of suggested contacts you might be interested in pinning to the taskbar. Click on one of those contacts and two things will happen. I was able to 'hide' the phone number from displaying in the taskbar/tray but, like you, I want to make sure it's completely removed from the computer. I also read somewhere that one should factory reset the router and change PW if someone from the service got access to the computer (which they did, in my case).
Remove People From Taskbar
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