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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2023-02-15T21:32:19+00:00 I do not want GOSSIPY NEWS ABOUT THE ROYAL FAMILY, FILM STARS AND OTHER CELEBRITIES.
AT 86 years, I only need Canada, WORLD News of importance such as the climate, a tragedy as well as THE WEATHER AND CLIMATE. That IS ENOUGH to follow. I am a writer and I wish there was not the bombardment of topics.
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2023-02-16T13:04:42+00:00 I had the exact same problem as you. because I could not remove the News & Interests widgets and uninstalling did not stop the feed I rolled back my Windows 11 deployment and stuck with version 10. The video of the developers explaining how cool it is forcing endless notifications was really terrible. They gave us endless news notifications and no tabbed file browser. This is the only place I know to express my unhappiness over this feature to Microsoft. I'll bet they sys admins to disable it for their domains. Why not give pro and home users that same ability? I came here hoping they made get rid of the news and interests as easy as in Windows 10 in the most recent 11 version. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case Maybe I will not upgrade till Windows 12.