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
    2022-09-23T11:25:09+00:00

    You can disable feeds alltogether:

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

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-14T11:43:14+00:00

    hi i copied winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy and definitely removed my news feed including my widgets is there anyway i can download it again to retrieve the widgets? i was only trying to remove those annoying news

    You can redownload the package https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-web-experience-pack/9MSSGKG348SP?hl=en-us&gl=us

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-07T04:10:00+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-17T11:03:20+00:00

    From everything I've found thus far, there's no way to disable the actual newsfeed and still keep the widget board to use the true widgets like weather and traffic.

    Nothin' more than liberal propaganda, celebrity drama queens, and clickbait baddies -- so sick of this BS!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-09T07:58:17+00:00

    hi i copied winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy and definitely removed my news feed including my widgets is there anyway i can download it again to retrieve the widgets? i was only trying to remove those annoying news

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