Not sure if you all know that or not, But Microsoft will allow turning off News feed later this year.
I forgot to write it in the article below, but here is what else is coming later this year.
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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Anonymous
2023-09-07T17:15:29+00:00 News feed is trash and its content has no business being forced on Enterprise licensed versions of the OS
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Anonymous
2022-11-11T16:22:26+00:00 Hi Hinata;
I am NOT the original person who asked the question, but ......
perfect! thank you!
It worked like a dream.
I wanted it GONE. And yes, I did not just want it hidden. I did not want it using my computer resources (without my permission. we could all do with less powerful machines, or keep machines longer)
As someone further down mentioned: the feed is garbage. It serves only to be an ad delivery service for Microsoft, so they can make some $$. If I want to distract myself with " Will Smith slapping someone at the Oscars"...or some other thing, I can use the Interwebs and search myself.
thank you again - you know your stuff! Very helpful!
Dan
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Anonymous
2022-11-07T14:19:33+00:00 This is completely true the news and other widget are a waste consuming resources and are not able to be removed.
The replys stating the obvious that the Design is flawed are hidden or ignored.
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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.