Thanks — good screenshot. Two quick questions before exact steps: are you on Windows 10 or Windows 11, and do you want to keep the little weather/temperature on the taskbar while removing the article/news tiles, or do you want the whole panel gone?
Below are safe options for both OSes (all work without signing in to a Microsoft account).
If you’re on Windows 10 (News & interests)
- Quick (no registry): right‑click the taskbar → News and interests → Reduce taskbar updates to keep just the weather/temperature and stop rotating article updates, or choose Turn off to remove the feature entirely.
- Registry (make the change persist / scriptable):
- Open Registry Editor (regedit).
- Go to...