How to disable news and interest in Windows 11 widget

Anonymous
2021-10-22T20:48:56+00:00

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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Sumit 44,306 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2024-02-23T11:57:06+00:00

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.

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2021-10-24T20:11:33+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-04-03T23:45:17+00:00

    That did get the widgets off there.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T22:33:06+00:00

    I was wondering the same. Gosh how is it possible I can't remove this from my OS? I find this very disturbing. I don't need Windows to display news to me

    EDIT:

    I was able to remove the area with this:

    1. Press WIN+R keys together to launch RUN dialog box. Now type regedit and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\

3. Select Microsoft key and right-click on it and select New -> Key option. Set the new key name as Dsh

4. Now select Dsh key and in right-side pane, right-click on empty area and select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value option.

5. Set the new DWORD name as AllowNewsAndInterests and set its value to 0 to disable weather widget feature.

    Source: https://www.askvg.com/tip-disable-or-remove-weather-widget-on-windows-11-taskbar/

    now the widget area is gone altogether even if Widgets is selected from the Settings app.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-30T12:47:01+00:00

    No, your "answer" doesn't answer anything. Please, at least do the favor of reading and understanding what people ask. Obviously, there's no way to disable the news stream in the widget area (this is what the OP asked about, not removing the widget button itself from the taskbar, the question has nothing to do with the taskbar). MS probably makes some money off this, or there's some other reason but they don't want to allow us, users, to decide for ourselves whether we want it or not.

    So, read the question first and then you can answer the truth: at least as of now, there's no way to disable it.

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