News and Interests Showing Up and Running In Task Manager

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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.

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lmacri 2,505

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

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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Anonymous

2024-10-23T18:37:03+00:00

Hello! I wanted to let those know that that after I installed

Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.8 and 4.8.1 for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64

KB5045991 my News and Interests process that was running in task manager eating memory and causing other problems such as 10010 DCOM errors and causing some programs not to close properly on restart and shutdown has now disappeared. I do not seem to have any further problems "yet" but who knows how long this will last. Before I installed the update KB5045991 I had been getting 10010 DCOM errors involving Microsoft.Windows.Search_1.14.17.19041_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy!ShellFeedsUI and CortanaUI.AppXf8r3d8cn5hd71h9jyzah6ak9f3shj2d2.mca so I uninstalled deprecated Cortana but whether that had anything to do with it I do not know. I have not installed Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5045594) nor will I ever again install these optional Cumulative Update Previews updates as they have proven to be buggy and cause problems and MS seems to be using us a guinea pigs to find these bugs. I will wait for the Patch Tuesday updates from now on. If this "what seems to be a fix" holds after the Nov Patch Tuesday Updates then I will come back and marked this resolved.

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Anonymous

2024-09-26T18:00:39+00:00

DonT5: For completely remove the process, you need to turn off "News and Interests" in the taskbar and also set the referred tweaks in the registry, The problem is not related with Edge Webview, it's only erroneous called by the "News and Interests" routine.
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2024-09-26T08:05:17+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

The content in the link is in French and you can view it using the translation in the interface.

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
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