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. Sumit 44,416 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-06-14T10:50:48+00:00

    Not sure if you all know that or not, But Microsoft will allow turning off News feed later this year.

    Microsoft will FINALLY let users disable the MSN feed in Windows 11's widgets board later this year | Windows Central

    I forgot to write it in the article below, but here is what else is coming later this year.

    https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2023/05/microsoft-announces-several-new-features-for-windows-11-at-build.html

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-14T12:40:00+00:00

    Will we be able to get the calendar agenda flyout back?

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  3. Sumit 44,416 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-06-14T13:47:47+00:00

    No news - however, Microsoft is tracking the item in the Feedback Hub so ensure to upvote.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-17T14:40:10+00:00

    Ahmen! Couldn't agree with you more. There is not technical reason for this except to push fake news... Whoever thought this was a good idea inside of Microsoft should be fired but it probably goes right to the top

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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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