📎 AI Summary:
The thread is about disabling the news/articles feed shown in the Windows weather area (especially the rotating “articles” advertising) without signing into a Microsoft account. The main responses ask whether the user is on Windows 10 or 11 and whether they want to keep the taskbar weather widget while removing only the articles, then provide options like turning off News & interests / reducing taskbar updates (Windows 10), disabling the Widgets feed via the Widgets settings (Windows 11), and more aggressive registry/uninstall approaches. Overall sentiment is helpful and practical, focusing on safe, reversible steps tailored to the user’s Windows version.
The thread is about disabling the news/articles feed shown in the Windows weather area (especially the rotating “articles” advertising) without signing into a Microsoft account. The main responses ask whether the user is on Windows 10 or 11 and whether they want to keep the taskbar weather widget while removing only the articles, then provide options like turning off News & interests / reducing taskbar updates (Windows 10), disabling the Widgets feed via the Widgets settings (Windows 11), and more aggressive registry/uninstall approaches. Overall sentiment is helpful and practical, focusing on safe, reversible steps tailored to the user’s Windows version.
Solution
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)
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 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds.
- Create or edit a DWORD (32‑bit) value named ShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode and set:
- 0 = show icon + temp
- 1 = icon only
- 2 = disabled (turns the feature off).
- Sign out / restart Explorer or reboot. (Back up the key before editing.
- Turn off just the news feed (keep widgets like weather):
- Open Widgets (Win + W or click weather on the taskbar).
- Click the gear (Settings) in the top right → Show or hide feeds → turn the Microsoft Start / Feed (My Feed) toggle to Off and confirm. This removes the article/news feed but leaves other widgets (weather) available.
- Remove Widgets completely (if you don’t want the panel at all): right‑click the taskbar → Taskbar settings → toggle Widgets Off — or set TaskbarDa = 0 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced to hide it via registry.
If you want to remove the feed component entirely (no feed even in the background) - You can uninstall the package that powers the feed (Windows Web Experience Pack). Open an elevated PowerShell/Command Prompt and run:
winget uninstall "windows web experience pack"
That removes the Microsoft Start/MSN feed from Widgets (you can reinstall later if needed).
Notes / cautions - Turning off the feed or uninstalling the web experience pack will stop the article tiles but may change what other widgets display; uninstalling the pack is more aggressive.
- Registry edits and vivetool tweaks are reversible but always back up the registry or create a system restore point first.
- If you only want temperature visible but Microsoft’s UI won’t cooperate, you can replace it with a small third‑party tray/weather app (WeatherBar, Meteo, WeatherMate, etc..
Tell me: - Which Windows version (10 or 11)?
- Do you want to keep the weather/temperature visible on the taskbar or remove the whole thing?