Windows 10 The new "News and Interest" feature in Win10 has stopped giving me the weather

[Nomad of Norad]

A few days ago, I noticed my Win10 taskbar had added a new feature to the left of the system-tray, which when moused over, displays news and weather and whatnot. At that location in the taskbar, it was showing me the weather. Mostly it showed the current temperature, and a particular symbol to represent cloudy or rainy.

Today, unrelated to that, I had to reboot the machine in order to clear out a particular program window that had hung.

The previous time that particular desktop program hung like that, I could not get it to exit at all. I tried killing the task from inside Task Manager several times over, but that did nothing. It didn't matter how many times I invoked Kill Task, that frozen program window stayed put. The only way out was to to restart the computer. This time around, I decided to skip trying to kill that crashed program in Task Manager and went directly to issuing a shut down. Walked away for a quick snack, came back to find the machine hadn't completely shut down, and was just sitting there on, with both monitors in standby and no disk activity showing, so after wiggling the mouse around to see if that got any attention (and upon subsequently seeing no response from that), and figuring that that one crashed task was the only thing preventing the machine from finishing its shut down, I simply held down the power button until the machine physically shut off.

Anyway, I turned the machine back on, and everything started pretty much like normal... except now, instead of seeing the weather on my taskbar, where its supposed to be, over there next to the system-tray up-carat thingy... I'm seeing a symbol resembling a folded up newspaper. I can mouse over that folded-up-newspaper area, and I see the same News and Interest pane that was popping up before... but now, the weather card is NOT showing anymore, just news stuff. Normally, the more detailed weather info would be on the upper right on that pane, but now its just showing me one of the news items there.

Checking back over the settings for News and Interest, which is configured through Edge browser for some cockeyed reason, I find that it still has the weather card enabled, and the weather feature has my location detected, and everything.... but no matter what I do, its not placed the weather info back into the taskbar or into the pane that pops up when I mouse over that newspaper-symbol. I'm making the assumption that something under the hood at my end got corrupted in there, but i don't know how to fix it, and its driving me batty.

Anyone else have any idea how to get my weather info back to showing on the taskbar again? I am at a loss here.

Edit: Okay, an hour later, something refreshed itself, and now the weather has gone back to showing over there again. The heck...?!? 0o

 

[ChatGPT]

It seems like the News and Interest pane in your Windows 10 taskbar experienced a temporary issue, causing the weather information to disappear or be displayed incorrectly. Here are a few troubleshooting steps you can take to ensure the weather information remains visible on your taskbar: 1. Refresh the News and Interests Pane: - Sometimes, certain aspects of the News and Interests feature can experience temporary glitches. You can try refreshing the feature by right-clicking on the folded-up newspaper symbol in the taskbar and selecting "News and interests" > "Refresh." 2. Check Weather Settings: - Verify that the location settings for the weather information are configured correctly. You can do this by clicking on the weather information in the News and Interests pane and checking if the location is accurate. 3. Restart Windows Explorer: - At times, restarting the Windows Explorer process can help to refresh the taskbar and its associated features. You can restart Windows Explorer by: - Pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager. - In the Processes tab, right-click on Windows Explorer and select "Restart." 4. Clear Cached Data: - Clearing the cached data related to the News and Interests feature might resolve any temporary issues. You can try clearing the Windows Explorer cache by navigating to C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache and deleting the contents of this folder. 5. Run Windows Update: - Ensure your Windows 10 system is up to date by running Windows Update. Updates may contain fixes for known bugs or issues related to the taskbar features. 6. Check for System Corruption: - If the issue persists, consider running a System File Checker (SFC) scan or a DISM scan to check for and repair system file corruption. By following these steps, you can troubleshoot the issue with the weather information not displaying correctly in the Windows 10 taskbar's News and Interests pane.