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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Anonymous
2023-09-27T01:28:18+00:00 This is good, although what people are asking for is how to remove the Feed in your Widgets Board.
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Anonymous
2023-09-27T14:42:15+00:00 This is ultimately THE REAL QUESTION.
How do we as the users of the OS have some control over the background behavior of these 'features'?
I'm so glad I daily a fedora linux system. I just boot this partition occasionally to keep it updated. This is really stressing me out.
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Anonymous
2023-09-27T15:17:50+00:00 I really like windows 10 so much better with the weather and stuff in the tray. I can't stand having stuff running in the background like steam and what ever. I want apps to start when i want to use them and stop completely when i'm done. Not drag the cpu with continuous updates. That really bothers me. I want it to be like apple there is a message to update and you do it when you feel like it not 16 time a day.