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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 have disabled widgets but every time I touch the left edge of my screen the news widget still opens and shows me MSN news. "Swipe to go back" is arguably the most common gesture in use on earth due to it being implemented as such on android and iOS.
Please tell me that on my Surface Pro this gesture can be reassigned to do the same thing it does on my phone...
Thanks, my trackpad quit working because Asus had the forethought to have the f6 key disable it. Don't know what I rolled over with the mouse while trying to fix it, but microsoft "News" kept popping up making me even more frustrated. I almost gave up and got my chromebook. Hopefully this solved the problem. All they seem to talk about is trump anyway. I'm a bit tired of hearing about him. Thanks aging. You should really be able to control how it is displayed. It would not be so bad if I could read it when I want like google news.
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.
I agree. 👍
I also just wanted the weather and news from my country and NOT every idiotic 'news' service the U.S. has in existence.
Microsoft had a real chance to add something that could have been so awesome but decided to make it a cash grab even though the users they targeted have paid bloody good 💰 for this OS.
I am very sorry but I am unable to assist as I do not use a Surface Pro; just a Desktop PC.
Having said that, I'd be surprised if you couldn't.
I don't want to disable ALL Widgets, Just that one pathetic piece of shtuff with the useless (to me) news feeds. Turning off Widgets in the task bar settings gets rid of it, but I will no longer be able to use any task bar widget I may come across and actually like.
BTW: The Process line in the bottom of what? If I kill the process in Task Manager, it just keeps coming back. Where do I find this "Process Line". Is there any way to turn off the annoying (trash) news feeds and still keep the useful weather widget?
