With the February update to Windows 11 - you have the option to disable MS start to feed from the Widget Settings. Requires Windows 11 23H2 at least.
How to disable news and interest in Windows 11 widget
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I want to keep the widget on my task bar, however I don't want the new stories to show. I've hide a bunch of them and they still end up showing, but I'm constantly having to hide them all since there are sooooo many. How do I disable the top stories, and the news and interest without turning off my widgets. I ONLY want the weather to show.
I've uninstalled microsoft news but I'm still seeing the news stories.
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I would suggest that you completely remove the the Widgets app from your taskbar - see here -and pin the Weather App to Start / Taskbar.
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2023-03-15T16:23:04+00:00 Stop and think for a moment about how terribly ironic this is. They place a massive, obvious disclaimer that a link in a forum reply leads to a safe, accurate, relevant, but non-microsoft website, meanwhile their primary operating system and software product will fill your screen with information and images from a wide variety of unsafe, irreputable, and most certainly irrelevant and non-microsoft websites at a single keystroke or a flick of the finger with absolutely zero warning, disclaimer, or ability to stop the computer from accessing said sites. I can only interpret this disclaimer as a sarcastic insult to those of us who have not seen enough to switch to linux yet.
Edit: There is a way to uninstall the widgets program entirely, thank goodness, though it is in no way obvious or accessibly to 95% of users. Running the command winget uninstall "windows web experience pack" in cmd or powershell as administrator appears to run a clean uninstall. Something like this ought to at least appear in the applications list so that it can be uninstalled through settings like most apps.
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Anonymous
2023-02-25T09:17:47+00:00 100% this!
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Anonymous
2023-02-25T01:32:18+00:00 Microsoft? Ever listening to their customer base? Surely you jest.