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.

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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
    2024-10-20T15:41:24+00:00

    It runs as soon as you stop it :-(. I was able to stop it for a few hours last night, after uninstalling Copilot and hiding news in Skype.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-20T18:06:57+00:00

    It runs as soon as you stop it :-(. I was able to stop it for a few hours last night, after uninstalling Copilot and hiding news in Skype.

    I have filed several bug reports using the MS Edge Feedback extension at the top of the Edge browser and I just filed another one for an update on getting rid of this mess. The is an Edge and Edge Webview2 problem. I just uninstalled the bloatware and spyware CoPilot from my Win10 computer and I already have had Skype uninstalled since MS took it over. This News and Interests gives me Event 10010 errors DCOM errors on restart of my computer

    "Microsoft.Windows.Search_1.14.17.19041_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy!ShellFeedsUI did not register with DCOM within the required timeout" and if I do not kill that News and Interests task before I restart or shutdown my computer several of my Apps will not close properly and I have to wait for Windows to close them. Please file a bug report with the Edge Team if you have not done so and include any screenshots or files with it. No matter what anyone tells you on how to get rid of that task it will come back and the DEVS are the only ones to fix it. I have tried everything from doing to registry to making a new Win10 account and nothing works. Good luck and if I hear of anything I will post it here.

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  3. lmacri 2,505 Reputation points
    2024-10-22T15:01:23+00:00

    Hi DonT5:

    Thanks for posting about this Win 10 bug. I found your report on the Feedback Hub at https://aka.ms/AAt1rb8 and will leave an upvote and comment there later today.

    I have this same issue on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 machine. After I disable the News and Interests widget from my taskbar settings menu (by right-clicking on an empty space in my taskbar and changing News and Interests | Turn Off to ENABLED) and/or Local Group Policy Editor (Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | News and Interests | Enable News and Interests on the Taskbar | DISABLED) I still see a News and Interests process running in Task Manager. With the News and Interests widget disabled this way my News and Interests process is suspended in Task Manager and consumes no CPU but it continues to consume memory, sometimes using over 60 MB of RAM.

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    A few users posting about this bug in the 08-Oct-2024 AskWoody topic October Updates Are Out have reported that going to the more extreme measure of uninstalling the MSEdgeWebView2 application (or even uninstalling the MS Edge browser with a custom batch file - see PKCano's 20-Oct-2024 post # 2711510 in that topic) will stop the six instances of MSEdgeWebView2.exe from running under the News and Interests process in Task Manager, but this will NOT stop the instance of SearchApp.exe.

    Users posting comments below Vishal Gupta’s 04-Oct-2024 AskVG! troubleshooting guide at Fix: News and Interests Running in Task Manager in Windows 10 have also noted that the WebExperience app described in Step # 5 of those instructions (i.e., STEP 5: Use PowerShell Commands to Uninstall or Remove News and Interests in Windows 10) no longer exists in the current Win 10 OS build 19045.5011, which is further evidence that Microsoft has recently changed the way that New and Interests is implemented in Windows 10.

    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 v5.1.11.133-1.0.5048 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * Microsoft Edge v130.0.2849.46

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