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
    2023-03-28T15:26:36+00:00

    I did some testing and it appears the Block List only holds about 100 items - after that old items fall off when another feed is added.
    Anyone else see this?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T16:47:20+00:00

    Bias is the least of it's problems. It's the overdose of tat and clickbait that's it's biggest flaw. You can customise the newsfeeds to point it in your favoured political direction but you still end up with mostly irrelevant stuff.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T14:15:26+00:00

    I agree. The MSN/Bing newsfeed used to populate news is *SO BIASED*, even worse than Google's feed! The developers of the feed algorithm have managed to create something that is losing eyeballs! Well done!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T06:11:49+00:00

    This is quite maddening because I actually want to use the widgets. It is just that I don't want to be bombarded with all this garbage. The function is great and it would sure be nice if we could easily turn off all news and then use the actual widgets, which can be quite useful such as TTD.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-28T14:37:57+00:00

    Thank you! I really only want the weather but I did weather, outlook calendar, traffic and to-do. I still saw the top of the next set of news widgets so I added Family Safety just to push them down. Now there's nothing distracting me. I appreciated this tip!

    You're welcome!

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