Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

Anonymous
2022-03-21T19:23:48+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-10T22:55:47+00:00

    Yeah its no wonder they offered a free downgrade from Windows 10 to 11. Force a bunch of **** onto you that nobody likes, that they probably get paid for, so they give it for free so they can make more money.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-17T08:23:51+00:00

    I agree with this response.

    Given that microsoft have decided to deprecate existing features in favour of bundling them in with this one, it seems even more pertinent that users be allowed to remove spam/fake news/ads/clickbait content completely.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-17T03:27:03+00:00

    That's it ! no more annoying widgets and news feeds !

    the point of this thread though is how to stop/remove the annoying feeds and keep those that are interesting and helpful.

    we've all known how to remove the whole panel for quite some time... i think MarTre just has trouble doing simple internet searches and/or reading.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-02T16:15:22+00:00

    I want the weather icon in on my task bar. But, it comes with garbage. I had to turn it off.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-17T15:11:31+00:00

    This is very interesting and welcome news.

    In the article it says "enables a new widgets only layout"... does this mean the news feed will be completely stopped and not be piped in in the background using resources and bandwidth?

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