Windows 10: how to remove/turn off the absolutely piece of annoying **** that is the MS news widget?

no matter how many times, I turn widgets off, or click and do any of the prescribed solutions listed online.It will not go away!!I can block the same site over and over on the widget, and it just comes back again after a few days.and it constantly pops up any time I as much as hover a second anywhere on the screen.This is seriously starting to make me think of dropping Microsoft altogether as it is driving me insane.Are there any solutions to this, I've have sent numerous feedback messages to Microsoft about it, but itlooks like nothing is happening.Any help would be appreciated.

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Remove News from widgets board.

Hi, and thanks for reaching out. My name is Saeid. I'll be happy to help you out today.You can try the following steps to resolve the issue:

Certainly! Here are the steps to remove the News/Interests section from your Windows 11 Widgets Board:

First, click the Widgets button on your taskbar, located on the bottom right corner of your screen.

If you haven't already enabled the News/Interests feature, you'll see a prompt to turn it on. Click "Yes" if you want to turn it on or "Not Now" if you want to keep it off.

Once the News/Interests feature is enabled, you'll see a preview of the news on your Widgets Board. Right-click on the news section.

From the context menu that appears, select "News and Interests."

From the submenu, select "Turn off."

That's it! You have successfully removed the news section from your Widgets Board, and the button will still be present in your taskbar in case you want to turn it back on later.

 

Remove News from widgets board.

Sure, I can explain further and provide some screenshots to help you out.

The News/Interests section is a feature in Windows 11 that displays news and other information on your Widgets Board. It appears as a section with a news feed and a weather widget, located at the bottom of the Widgets Board, as shown below:

Windows 11 News/Interests section

If you don't see this section on your Widgets Board, it may not be enabled yet. To enable it, click on the Widgets button on your taskbar, and if you see a prompt to turn on News/Interests, click "Yes" to enable it.

If you've already enabled News/Interests and want to remove the news feed from your Widgets Board, you can follow the steps I provided earlier. Here they are again, with some screenshots to help:

1-Right-click on the News/Interests section of the Widgets Board.

2-Hover over the "News and interests" option, and then select "Turn off" from the

After you've selected "Turn off," the news feed should disappear from your Widgets Board. The button to open News/Interests will still be available on your taskbar in case you want to turn it back on later.

 

Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

When hovering over or clicking on the Widgets shortcut the panel appears with ~50 of these stupid little windows all showing news feeds.

I don't mind the weather and a very few other widgets that show something useful but all of these news panels are pointless, annoying, and really leaning me more towards going back to Windows 10 where I can have real Live Tiles again without this excess junk.

How can we really customize this panel and remove all these unwanted news panels?

I have closed them with the upper-right 'X' which leaves them blank until the next time the panel opens.

I have chosen to 'Hide stories' from at least 100 different news agencies, but they continue to appear.

I have gone through the MS account 'personalize your interests' option to remove all possible genres of news.

Nothing removes the amount of windows shown or the genre of news that they continue to show.

I don't want to change what these little windows show, I want to delete the majority of the windows altogether so that only 4 or 5 at the most are there.

And why are these limited to these news feed type windows; weather, stocks, etc?

Why can't we create custom application shortcut widgets like in old Windows 7 & 8.1 add-ons with advanced options?