There are no Group Policy settings to hide the Task View button but you can use a GPO to set the "ShowTaskViewButton" registry value
There are no Group Policy (GPO) settings to show or hide the Task View Button.
However, Task View can be disabled with a User registry setting deployed using Group policy
HKCU
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
ShowTaskViewButton
Value 0 - Task view disabled
Value 1 - Task View enabled
User Configuration - Preferences - Windows Settings - Registry
New Registry Item
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
ShowTaskViewButton
REG_DWORD
Value: 0
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