Remove Meet Now from Windows 10

To conduct video conferences, Microsoft introduced “Meeting Now”, also known as “Meet Now” in October 2020 in the 20H2 component update. “Meeting now” is part of Skype and recently also part of Windows 10.

Microsoft has added the “Meet Now” icon to the Windows 10 taskbar. You'll see this icon in the notification area, to the left of the time and date.

By adding “Meet Now” as an icon, Microsoft has attempted to make it easier for Windows 10 operating system users to create meetings or join online meetings.

However, more and more people are apparently annoyed by this new “meet now” addition in Windows 10.

Delete meet now

To hide “Meet Now” from all Windows 10 users, follow the steps below. This requires an adjustment in the Windows registry. It is advisable to do one first Create a Windows restore point.

Right-click on the Start button. In the menu click on Run. In the run window type: regedit.exe

In the registry editor. Open the following folder structure on the left:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\

Right-click in the right part of the registry editor and click New and then “DWORD (32-bit) Value”.

Name this value: HideSCAMeetNow and set the value to 1.

Now close the registry editor and restart the computer. The system tray shortcut to “Meet Now” is hidden.

If you want to display “meet now” in the taskbar again, change the HideSCAMeetNow value to 0.

I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading.