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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Anonymous
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
    2023-02-25T09:17:47+00:00

    100% this!

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  2. Anonymous
    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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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-31T19:54:59+00:00

    Rght click on the taskbar. Open taskbar settings and disable widgets. Done with that ****!

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