Windows 10: I want to disable New Tab option in Chrome through group policy

I have a specific requirement in which I want to disable chrome New Windows option through group policy.

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Windows Defender Group Policy Disabeled

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft community.

As you have stated you want to disable the group policy so that you can run windows defender on the computer.

I would like to suggest few troubleshooting steps:

Method 1: Disable group policy from gpedit.msc

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  Press Windows key + R.
  
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  Type gpedit.msc and click Ok.(it will open Local Group policy editor)
  
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  Go to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Defender.
  
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  In the right pane of
  Windows Defender in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the
  Turn off Windows Defender policy to edit it.
  
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  Select (dot) Not Configured or
  Disabled, click/tap on OK,
  
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  When finished, you can close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.
  

If the issue still persist you can follow method 2.

Method 2: Disable group policy from registry.

Important: This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow
these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

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  Press Window Key +R.
  
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  Type regedit and click. (it will open registry)
  
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  Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
  
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  Right Click on Window Defender to create a new Dword.
  
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  Click on New and Select Dword.
  
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  Type DisableAntiSpyware.
  
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  Right click on DisableAntiSpyware and click on modify.
  
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  Set the value to 0 instead of 1.
  

Hope this information is helpful. If the issue still persists, you can write back to us and we will be glad to assist you further.

 

Windows 11 - Grouping Tabs

Dear Jessica,I understand that you want to ungroup tabs in Chrome;

In that case I suggest you try the solutions below;

Open Chrome and paste the following URL into the address bar: chrome://flags/ hit enter

Type: Tab Groups Save in the search bar and press Enter;

Change TAB Groups Save to Disabled;

Restart Chrome and check the tabs are still grouped together;

See you soon!

 

Chrome's tab group icons are enlarged

(Hello, reposting from Google Chrome Help since I got no replies, so I was wondering if it's a Windows issue/feature. The post was locked and got 19 upvotes.) (This occured on Dec 6th 2023.)

The icons of my Chrome tab groups have WIDENED. I'm not sure when this happened or what I did to make this happen.

Before I realized my tab groups were like this, I was screwing around with a legitmitate app (aka not a virus or anything that's dangerous) and set it to admin then reverted back, and restarted my laptop to add a language to my system locale, so I don't know if it was like that before or after I did those things.

Picture of before and after (resolutions are different but you can see the change):

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• I re-enabled then disabled Chrome's UI refresh but that did not change anything
  
• Changing text size via my system settings did not affect it
  
• New groups also look like this
  
• I don't want to reset any settings to default