Unpin Edge with pure PowerShell, take two

Earlier this year I wrote a PowerShell script to unpin Microsoft Edge from the taskbar, since Microsoft didn't offer any official way to do so. Since then they have added a way to do it through Group Policy, but unfortunately this method seems a little half-baked. I stuck to using my script.

While the original script worked, it used a very stiff and fragile method to locate Edge in the taskbar registry key. If the Edge version number changed, the script would have to be updated. I've written a new version of the script which is intended to be less picky about new Edge versions. As a bonus, it comes with support for removing the Windows Store app right out of the box. If you don't want to unpin Windows Store you can just remove the entry from the hash table.

Note that changing the taskbar in this manner is not officially supported by Microsoft, and if something goes wrong it will likely end in all apps and applications being unpinned from the taskbar. Use the script at your own risk and make sure to thoroughly test it in your specific environment before using it in a production setting.

Here's the script:
Unpin Edge (and Windows Store)

The original version of the script can be found here, along with some more details on how it works.