Windows 10: Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Windows 10

How to: Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Windows 10

How to Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Windows 10


Starting with People icon and bar that can show on the taskbar notification area. Whether you want to share a photo, make plans for dinner, or get an answer from a friend or coworker My People is here to take it to the next level and bring the people you care about most to the center of your experience.

You are currently limited to having only 3 contacts pinned to the taskbar on the People bar.

• Only the first 3 contacts you pin to the taskbar will show by default.
• If you pin more than 3 contacts to the taskbar, then the pinned contacts over the first 3 pinned will be in overflow and only show in the order you pinned them when you unpin contacts already showing.

This tutorial will show you how to change how many My People contacts can be pinned to the taskbar and show for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Settings
• Option Two: Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Registry Editor

EXAMPLE: My People contacts pinned to taskbar









OPTION ONE [/i] To Add or Remove People Button from Taskbar in Taskbar Context Menu

*note This option is only available starting with Windows 10 build 17063.
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Personalization icon.

2. Click/tap on Taskbar on the left side, and select 1 to 10 or Put everyone on overflow for how many contacts you want in the Choose how many contacts to show drop menu on the right side. (see screenshot below)

*note You will need to have Show contacts on the taskbar turned on for this setting to be available to change.

3. You can now close Settings if you like.









OPTION TWO [/i] Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Registry Editor
1. Press the Win+R keys to open Run, type regedit into Run, and click/tap on OK to open Registry Editor.

2. Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\People




3. In the right pane of the People key, double click/tap on the TaskbarCapacity DWORD to modify it.

*Warning Starting with Windows 10 build 17063, you will need to use the CapacityOfPeopleBar DWORD instead.

*note If you do not have a TaskbarCapacity DWORD, then right click or press and hold on an empty space in the right pane of the People key, click/tap on New, click/tap on DWORD (32-bit) Value, type TaskbarCapacity for the name, and press Enter.

4. Select (dot) Decimal, enter a number for how many contacts you want to allow to be pinned to your taskbar on the People bar, and click/tap on OK.

*note You can enter a number as high as you want for how many pinned contacts to show on your taskbar. It's usually best to only have up to what will fit on the taskbar though.

3 is the default amount of pinned contacts allowed to show.

0 will have no pinned contacts allowed to show. This is the same as the Put everyone in overflow setting.



5. sign in to apply.

6. You can now close Registry Editor if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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contact list

Please see:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/83110-pin-u...

 

How many people can be in a family?

My family recently upgraded from windows 7 to 10. My husband did the upgrade and added our 4 kids as members of his family and then sent an invite to me. When I clicked to accept the invite and provided my Microsoft account credentials I was met with the
following message:

You haven't joined the family yet!

Can not join, family has reached maximum member allowed.

This leaves me wondering. How many people does Microsoft consider to be a maximum for a family? Our family of 6 doesn't seem extreme in any way. Is there a way that we can get around this and have us all in the same family unit?

Thanks for any help.

 

Good idea Edwin. *Smile

 

@Brink
It might be prudent to include, in the tutorial, the ability to use an extensive CapacityOfPeopleBar value, then 'Put everyone in overflow';
then you will have an extensive, unified list in the Overflow Menu and no random 'suggestions', as well as the ability to 'drag to order'.
The setting will remain and survive a reboot etc, while the Reg setting defaults to 0.





Of course, I'll leave it up to your good judgement! *Wink

 

Hey @Edwin,

It's already in the note box under step 3 in Option Two. *Tongue

I've updated the screenshots to help though.