Open the Settings app (see above for various ways to do this).

You can uninstall apps directly from your Start menu.

Right-click on the app and choose “Uninstall.” You’ll be told that the app will be uninstalled, so click “Uninstall” again.

(The app may say “Microsoft Teams (Preview)” instead.)

Scroll down to the Microsoft Teams app or type “Teams” in the search box.

Click on the Start menu icon in the Taskbar and then on the “All apps” button.

There are actually two ways of doing this: Using the Start menu If you really, really don’t want Teams around, you can uninstall it. You can easily remove Teams from your Taskbar. Right-click on the Taskbar and then click on “Taskbar settings”.If you have no intention of using it and want to save your Taskbar for other apps, it’s simple to remove it, though it’s not quite the same process as most of the other apps that are pinned there.

Remove Teams from your TaskbarĮven if you stop Teams from loading, you’re still going to have the Teams Chat icon sitting in your Taskbar. Toggle Teams off so it won’t automatically start up.īy the way, as long as you’re in the Startup menu, take a look at some of the other apps that automatically start up with your computer there may be some others that you want to disable (for example, what if you don’t necessarily want to run OneDrive?). Scroll down to “Microsoft Teams” and toggle it off.There are several methods: you can click on your Start icon and select Settings from the pinned menu or right-click the Start icon and select Settings or type “Windows + i” on the keyboard. This not only gets your machine to start up faster, but it reserves your PC’s memory for the stuff you really want to use. It’s really simple to simply stop Teams - or any other app that you don’t need - from loading when your machine starts up. And, if you really want to go the whole hog, you can uninstall it. You can remove the Chat icon from the Taskbar. You can stop Teams from automatically loading every time you start your machine. There are several things you can do if you find the push to Teams irritating. So what if you’re not interested in using Microsoft Teams? After that, when you click on the Chat icon, you’ll be able to chat with friends, family, and colleagues using a pop-up box. If you’re already using Teams, or you’re okay with switching to it, you’re fine. If you float your cursor across the icon, which looks like a camera inside of a cartoon speech balloon, it will say “Chat.” Click on it, and you’ll be invited to “Meet and chat with friends and family” using Microsoft Teams. When you first install Windows 11, you will probably see a new icon on your Taskbar - or, at least, it will be new if you haven’t been using Microsoft’s Teams collaboration app lately.

Teams window app