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
    2022-10-05T15:33:16+00:00

    This feature could have been so useful, and instead they piled a bunch of junk on it. I really want to know what the weather report looks like and possibly half a dozen information sources. Instead MSN is making me pick through the junk pile.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-27T14:26:21+00:00

    Or or or….

    You would make it like your end users would like to.

    Instead of annoying ads being shoved down your throat.

    I’m back at Win10 already.

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  3. Sumit 44,416 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-09-27T14:14:08+00:00

    News is something that cannot be removed from the Widgets panel currently, but you can always upvote/add your comments in this Feedback post:

    https://aka.ms/AAe08en

    Additionally, as news draws revenue to Microsoft, it is not sure they would do the same.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-24T00:45:05+00:00

    You can disable feeds alltogether:

    • right click on the process line in the bottom
    • select settings for the process line
    • disable Widgets

    Left click I believe?

    There are only 8 Widgets that can be be added, pinned or removed every other annoying piece of rubbish comes direct via MSN and no matter what one does regarding that particular feed is totally ignored!

    *The original poster (*GObonzo) was specific in what they, and every other sane user wants; only the user selected widgets enabled and nothing more or less!

    These so called "Agents" that have been responding are idiots simply cutting and pasting a standard non-sensical "answer" without addressing the actual problem! 😡

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