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When hovering over or clicking on the Widgets shortcut the panel appears with ~50 of these stupid little windows all showing news feeds.
I don't mind the weather and a very few other widgets that show something useful but all of these news panels are pointless, annoying, and really leaning me more towards going back to Windows 10 where I can have real Live Tiles again without this excess junk.
How can we really customize this panel and remove all these unwanted news panels?
I have closed them with the upper-right 'X' which leaves them blank until the next time the panel opens.
I have chosen to 'Hide stories' from at least 100 different news agencies, but they continue to appear.
I have gone through the MS account 'personalize your interests' option to remove all possible genres of news.
Nothing removes the amount of windows shown or the genre of news that they continue to show.
I don't want to change what these little windows show, I want to delete the majority of the windows altogether so that only 4 or 5 at the most are there.
And why are these limited to these news feed type windows; weather, stocks, etc?
Why can't we create custom application shortcut widgets like in old Windows 7 & 8.1 add-ons with advanced options?
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not looking to deny the Widget panel from working, just to make it actually useful to me.
i've already removed this useless OS "upgrade" that is Windows 11 and gone back to the much more useful Windows 10.
if something improves further down the road of development with 11 that makes the Widget panel and the dumbed-down Start 'panel' more useful i will consider using it again, but for now it is just a terrible GUI compared to Windows 10 for my uses.
Hi, GObonzo
Welcome to the Microsoft Community.
You can try to uninstall the widget with the command. The advantage of uninstalling is to prevent the widget from sometimes starting the WebView and continuing to occupy resources when you are not using it.
Right-click on the start menu and select Terminal. If you don't have a terminal installed, you can directly search for the command prompt to open it, then copy the following command and press Enter.
winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy
I'm not sure if this will meet your needs, if not, please keep replying to me.
Best regards
Hinata
Microsoft Community Support Specialist
This in one of several issues that M$ shoved down users throats with Windows 11. If I go to "all apps" I am presented with a list of many apps. Some that I may find useful but many that are a wast of screen space of worse. Lets go town the list: clock - why must I have it? It can not be uninstalled! ; Microsoft News - If I want news, I'll make my own choice. If I click, "uninstall" the result is the same as if I sent a note to Mr. Putin asking to the end the war.; Microsoft Teams - I have no use for this and it "uninstalls" just like News does.; Microsoft To Do - same an the other apps.; Phone link - don't want can and not kill it! ; Video editor - Use another why must I put up with yours? ; Xbox Game Bar - I do not use this PC for games!! get rid of the damm thing.
How about some feed back from Microsoft with some real solutions.
Dude I understand. Every time I am like moving my mouse if I hover over it, it pops up. And sometimes it glitches so that I can't close it. So ANNOYING!
Agreed. It makes Windows 11 very UN-professional. I will likely go back to Windows 10. So far I see only annoying differences with almost no benefit. Why would a "search" icon on the taskbar bring up a bunch of news feeds and more icons? Having the search query window on the Windows 10 taskbar was perfect. Direct, single purpose and handy. No panel to pop up.
