News and Interests Showing Up and Running In Task Manager

Anonymous
2024-09-25T22:25:15+00:00

Hello,

I was checking my Task Manager today after installing Cumulative Update KB5043131 on my HP OMEN Desktop and my wife's HP Envy laptop and noticed a task called News and Interests running (see image below). We are running Win10 22H2 Build 19045.4957 . I have not noticed this before running in my Task Manager. I have News and Interests turned off in my Task Bar Settings and I do not see it but why is it all of a sudden showing up in my Task Manager. I have tried to use End Task for this but it keeps coming back after I end it. I use FireFox as my default browser and I have no interest in using this News and Interest junk now or ever. Could someone please tell me why it is there now and how I can get rid of this running in my Task Manager? I have also sent in feedback to MS Edge since I see Edge WebView2 and also to MS FeedBack Hub. Thank you.

Respectfully,

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lmacri 2,505 Reputation points
2024-10-29T13:18:48+00:00

Hi DonT5:

Microsoft appears to have released a bug fix.

My MS Edge WebView2 Runtime (msedgewebview2.exe) updated to v130.0.2849.56 on 28-Oct-2029 and after a re-boot the News and Interests process no longer appears in my Task Manager. From Control Panel | Programs | Programs and Features on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 machine:

Kudos to EricB for reporting this bug fix in their 29-Oct-2024 post # 2713239 in the AskWoody.com topic October Updates Are Out.

Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5011 * Firefox v131.0.3 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.24080.9-1.1.24080.9 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.0.140-1.0.5073 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * Microsoft Edge v130.0.2849.56

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Anonymous
2024-10-29T19:53:55+00:00

Thanks for the information. I'm waiting for the next few days to reinstall the Webviews2 App from the official Microsoft website to see if it installs version v130.0.2849.56 and not v130.0.2849.52.

Last hour: Windows 11 automatically installed the v130.0.2849.56 version of Webviews 2 and now everything is back to normal on Windows 11 23H2 too.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-26T17:35:08+00:00

    Hello, DonT5

    Welcome to the Microsoft community.

    Thank you for your feedback. Other users in the community have similarly fed back on this issue and you can refer to the link below:

    service = news and interests, fed up with this polution - Microsoft Community

    Refer to Kyo's reply and let me know if my understanding is wrong.

    I look forward to your feedback, it will help me pinpoint your issue.

    Best Regards,

    Aaron| Microsoft Community Support Specialist

    Aaron,

    I have uninstalled that update and things seem to have settled down now but that process still appears and now you can kill it in the Task Manager and it will stay killed instead of coming back. I also feel this is a MS Edge problem as well and they need to look into this as well since it involves Edge Webview 2. This needs to be fixed either way. We do not want this process running and eating our memory.

    Respectfully,

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-26T16:36:01+00:00

    The problem started with "Cumulative Update KB5043131" and the pointed solution didn't solve the problem. When I uninstalled KB5043131 everything returned to normal. This is an ISSUE with the update and should be escalated to the dev team. ( tested in 3 pc's running Win 10 22H2)

    ![Image](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/e7be5cde-05b9-43ed-b756-4ca6431a95ab?platform=QnA

    I agree with you Carlos 100% about this. This is clearly a bug MS created with their update and MS needs to remedy this and not the users having to fix this.

    Respectfully,

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-10T08:50:58+00:00

    In this moment there's no solution for this... News and Interests stays in task list as "suspended" processes, even news and interests are completely disabled... this is stupid and bad design.

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