Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

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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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2022-12-23T02:18:29+00:00

You said you went back Windows 10. Me too. This OS/UI downgrade they call Windows 11 is (In my opinion) trash. A great many of my user customization options and features are totally gone, and trash like these news feeds added with no seeming way to get rid of them short of disabling Widgets altogether. This OS/UI is almost beyond fixing. Where's Windows 12 with all of my user customization tools and features put back in. Until then... Windows 10. It seems that Microsoft wants users to conform to the Windows 11 UI rather than letting users customize the UI to how they work or the way they use it. We listen? .....yeah right (Not)

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2022-12-29T22:40:43+00:00

I had really hoped that by now they would have corrected these issues. I spent a good portion of the Christmas holidays getting ready and finally upgrading to Windows 11. However, it was just my alt OS. I spent too much time fixing Windows 10 to go through that again.

Until Windows makes a new OS (or fixes 11) that does what I want it to and not what they want. I will stay with Windows 7 and use 10 when I have to.

The original widgets were great. Making them secure was all that was needed.
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