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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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I went to the search bar, and typed in search settings
selected search settings & privacy
Scrolled to more settings
toggled off show search highlights.
No more news and game ads, and also, the annoying little icon that shows in the search bar with a holiday or something also disappeared.
I hope it help someone else out there.
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.
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.
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.
The command winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy removed the news feed completely but left the Icon on the taskbar, How do I remove the icon?
To remove the icon on the taskbar :
That's it ! no more annoying widgets and news feeds !
