Disabling ‘Lock the Taskbar’ through the Local Group Policy Editor
This setting can be found in the Local Group Policy Editor on your system. You just need to navigate to it and enable the setting to gray out the Lock the Taskbar option. This policy setting is only available in the User Configuration category and not in the Computer Configuration category. However, since the Local Group Policy isn’t available in the Windows Home edition, we have also included the Registry Method. If you are using the Windows Home operating system, then skip this method.
Disabling ‘Lock the Taskbar’ through the Registry Editor
The Windows Registry is used to modify the low-level settings of your system. This method also does the same job as the above method, but it requires a few of the technical steps from the user. Users will need to create the missing key/value for the setting they are configuring. Just like the Local Group Policy Editor method, the value can be configured in the Current User hive only and not in the Current Machine hive. Follow the below steps to make this work: Note: It is always best to create a backup of your Registry before making any new changes.
