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
    2024-10-28T21:25:03+00:00

    I encountered a similar issue with the Windows 11 23H2 update (KB5044285).

    Not having the Widgets installed, instead of News I just see SearchHost.exe with the various WebViews2 activities in the background.

    Every time I click reboot the PC, an error appears about an app-process that has not been closed, an then PC reboot.

    At the moment, to remedy the mess, I uninstalled WebViews2 and it no longer has any background activity.

    If I reinstall the WebViews2 application the problem appears again. So either I uninstall the WebViews2 app or I manually end all WebViews2 processes to avoid problems when stopping/rebooting the PC.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-27T19:59:48+00:00

    Oh I didn't notice reinstalling is the best way to re-activate and making a system restore point before this kind of change is very important.

    Thank you very much for detailed helpful information!

    You are very welcome and remember these "Optional" Preview Cumulative Updates are nothing more but a test to see what bugs may crawl out that needs to be fixed before the Final Patch Tuesday update is sent out. I believe the fix for News and Interests may be rolled out in increments to users. Like I said it is best to wait for a problem that was created by a MS update to be fixed by those Devs at MS that created and one should make MS aware of a problem by filing a Bug report in the Feedback Hub or post it here. It may take a while for them to fix a problem created by them but as long as your computer is working no matter how annoying what you see that crops up out of the ordinary is at least it is working. Beware of so called workarounds and altering your registry in any way.

    Respectfully,

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-27T19:17:06+00:00

    Oh I didn't notice reinstalling is the best way to re-activate and making a system restore point before this kind of change is very important.

    Thank you very much for detailed helpful information!

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