Microsoft recently announced a ‘news and interests’ taskbar widget for Windows 10. While this feature was not widely available before, it is now expanded to Windows Insiders in beta and released preview rings. It hints that the stable launch is imminent. Although helpful, this widget takes up space on the taskbar and some people may not prefer to use it. In this article, we’ll go over the steps to remove the news & interests widget from Windows 10’s taskbar.
Disable News & Interests Widget in Windows 10
note: I tested this on a Windows 10 laptop running Windows 10 Insider Preview build 21359.1 on the Dev channel.
If you’re out of the loop, it’s an upcoming Windows 10 feature that shows various information like news and interests, news, cricket scores, traffic updates, and weather in the taskbar. Here’s how it looks:
Now, if you are not a fan of visual clutter, follow these steps to disable the news and interests widget on the Windows 10 taskbar right now:
1. Right click anywhere on the taskbar and you will see the following list of options. If you have access to the ‘News & interests’ feature, New option titled ‘News and interests’ here. Click or hover your mouse pointer over it to see the expanded set of options.
2. There are three options you can use to customize this feature. You can choose to see the icon and text, the weather icon only, or disable the news and interests widget altogether. You also have the option to have the widget open only when you click on it.
3. If you don’t want the widget to take up too much space on your taskbar, you can choose to keep the icon only. Select ‘Show icon only’ to see only one weather icon. When you enable icon-only mode it looks like this:
4. Alternatively Select ‘Turn Off’ to disable the news & interests widget completely. As you can see below, the news and interests section no longer appears in the Windows 10 taskbar after I disabled it.
Remove News and Interests from Taskbar in Easy Steps
This is how you can get rid of Microsoft’s news and interests taskbar widget on your Windows 10 computer. If you want a similar feature that isn’t in your taskbar, you should check out Edge’s news and weather feed. We also wrote a tutorial that you can follow to get news and weather widget in Microsoft Edge right now. For more such tips, check out our article on the best Windows 10 tips and tricks.
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