Widget feature missing in Windows 11

Anonymous
2021-07-02T10:22:15+00:00

Hello,

it seems that "Widgets" feature hadn't been properly installed with Windows 11 for me, because there is no option to add it to the taskbar and Win+W keys doesn't work.

I already tried re-registering apps using powershell, without results.

Do you have any idea how to fix this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-11-16T13:27:07+00:00

    Screenshot is in Dutch, sorry, but here's where I found my driver to search for (on the Intel website in my case).

    Open Windows Explorer and right click This PC on the left side.
    Choose Properties, showing some System Info.

    Scroll down and choose Device management (?, in Dutch Apparaatbeheer ;-))
    Here you should be able to find your video adapter.

    Success @eddiesq

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-16T12:58:21+00:00

    Thanks for this solution. How do you go about finding what is the correct driver for your computer on the intel site?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-11-16T07:08:38+00:00

    Exactly the same problem here ... Widgets and Teams not working from the taskbar. Tried a lot of 'solutions' found on the internet, but no success yet.

    Running Windows 11 Pro on a Dell Inspiron with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-30T08:46:04+00:00

    Hi;

    I faced the same issue with widgets but slightly different ... When windows installed, the widget icon was in taskbar but clicking on it was openning an idle window which was disapearing in 2 sec! later i restarted the system thinking it might help windows to finish any pending installation if any .... but then even the icon of widget was gone, shortcut keys also didnt work! it was gone!

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-10-29T18:27:17+00:00

    Thanks, I will look and see if I can find out. If it's similar to what you had, how do you fix it, or is it even worth it to mess with drivers just for widgets, because everything else in the computer works perfectly. Thanks for the response.

    These FBH were opened months ago.

    https://aka.ms/AAd27y3

    https://aka.ms/AAd9cq7

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