You may have noticed a new Weather icon/object in your taskbar on Windows 10 that just sort of showed up. If you right mouse click on it, nothing special happens. Nice ‘eh?
Wanna turn it off?
WHERE’D THIS COME FROM?
The “weather widget” came from the optional Feature Update from the 2004/Spring 2020 release of Windows 10. If you installed the optional feature update (KB5001391), it just appears. We made an announcement about it back in April 2021.
- Personalized content at a glance: Introducing news and interests on the Windows 10 taskbar | Windows Experience Blog
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/04/22/personalized-content-at-a-glance-introducing-news-and-interests-on-the-windows-10-taskbar/
HOW TO TURN OFF THE WEATHER & NEWS WIDGET IN WINDOWS 10
The issue is that no one knows what this thing is called (it’s official name is News & Interests widget) and it’s not entirely intuitive how to disable it. It’s actually simple once you’ve done it.
Right mouse click on the taskbar.- Click on the “News & Interests” menu item.
- Select “Turn off”
And that’s it. There’s some other items in there to minimize the widget or change it’s update frequency but the reality is that, for me, it’s consuming space on my taskbar which is the most valuable real estate on my desktop so… having some widget there that I never use is not an option.
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