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How to disable News and Interests in the taskbar?

Is there a way to completely disable the new News and Interests in the Windows 10 taskbar? I don't mean the Hide option but really disable it?
This thing is forced down our throats and really should be an opt-in feature. MS really is adding more and more BS :((

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 Right click on an empty space on the toolbar then News and interests, you can then toggle the settings on or off.

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 Right click on an empty space on the toolbar then News and interests, you can then toggle the settings on or off.

Yes but I mean totally disable it ... or even better, remove it?

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That will totally remove it from the task bar. 

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Hello meegjaZT,

I'm John an Independent Advisor and a Windows user like you. I'll be happy to assist you today.

Please check the tutorial guide below by Shawn Brink - MVP on How to Enable or Disable News and Interests on Taskbar in Windows 10.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/178178-how-...


Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.


Kind regards,

John DeV
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Hello,

See if this guide helps you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH_vxwOHv7c

Hope this helps!

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Keeps turning itself back on when I reboot. Another nasty annoyance from MS - thank you so much

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interesting how you pick fox news and it only picks stories that microsoft likes.

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Keeps turning itself back on when I reboot. Another nasty annoyance from MS - thank you so much

I use I safe tool for it to disable it. With safe I mean that it's not a tweaking tool, it's a tool that turns Off and/or On windows 10 features you do want or not want. If you use it for disabling News & Interest it's completely safe and there is also no install needed.
It's called O&O ShutUp10 and for info and download, see https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
And no, I am not affiliated with it, I use it myself and just works great :)

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interesting how you pick fox news and it only picks stories that microsoft likes.

This is one of the things I don't like about it: there seems to be some control of the sources that are used but that choice is more like a facade.

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Keeps turning itself back on when I reboot. Another nasty annoyance from MS - thank you so much

I use I safe tool for it to disable it. With safe I mean that it's not a tweaking tool, it's a tool that turns Off and/or On windows 10 features you do want or not want. If you use it for disabling News & Interest it's completely safe and there is also no install needed.
It's called O&O ShutUp10 and for info and download, see https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
And no, I am not affiliated with it, I use it myself and just works great :)

The product you suggested worked for me. Thanks so much.

Jack

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