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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 went to the search bar, and typed in search settings
selected search settings & privacy
Scrolled to more settings
toggled off show search highlights.
No more news and game ads, and also, the annoying little icon that shows in the search bar with a holiday or something also disappeared.
I hope it help someone else out there.
over this last year+ i have helped many users "upgrade" to Windows 11.
i'd say about 30% of them invited me back over to revert them back to Windows 10 or even Linux based OS because they also can't stand the **** MS has added into 11.
there is almost as much spyware, bs news, and dumbed down options that it resembles more of a handheld device with Google data collection going on.
i'm still going strong on Windows 10 even though they have also started trying to add some of the same sorts of junk within some of these updates.
now we have "News Feed & Media" processes trying to run in the background, pointless "Gaming Services" and others like more MS Edge junk.
definitely gets annoying having to track these processes down and manually delete them while MS is trying to prevent that from happening.
Still waiting...
What is going on with this? They actually made the widget panel worse as it has taken over 2 columns since the update. Why did they spend time making it worse instead of doing what they actually said?
No news - however, Microsoft is tracking the item in the Feedback Hub so ensure to upvote.
hi i copied winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy and definitely removed my news feed including my widgets is there anyway i can download it again to retrieve the widgets? i was only trying to remove those annoying news
You can redownload the package https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-web-experience-pack/9MSSGKG348SP?hl=en-us&gl=us
