The Microsoft News app gives you the latest news straight from Microsoft, but it can be quite annoying if you don’t want to use it. This guide will show you how to turn off Microsoft News from the taskbar, in Windows 10 and 8.1, and make it go away once and for all.
Method 1: Turn Off Microsoft News from Taskbar
To turn off Microsoft news from the taskbar quickly, you can do that via Windows Taskbar. Here are detailed steps:
- Right-click any blank space on the taskbar.
- Select News and interests >Turn off. Click the Turn off option.
- When you turn off news and interests, the weather will no longer appear on your taskbar.
Method 2: Turn Off Microsoft News via Registry
If the taskbar method doesn’t work for some reason, you can try an alternative method. The following steps can be used to turn off Microsoft news via Registry.
- Press Windows + R key, type Regedit, and click on OK.
- Browse the following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds
- Right-click the Feeds key, select the New submenu and choose the DWORD (32-bit) Value option.
- Name the new key ShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode and press Enter (if applicable).
- Double-click the newly created key and make sure the value is set from 2 to 0 to enable news and interests using the Show icon and text option.
- Click on OK. You can restart the system if necessary.
Method 3: Turn Off Microsoft News via Group Policy
To turn off Microsoft news on the taskbar from Windows, follow the steps below –
- Open Local Group Policy Editor by running the gpedit.msc command.
- In the left side pane, navigate to the following path:-
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.
- On the right side of the “News and interests” folder, double-click on the policy “Enable news and interests on the taskbar.”
- Select Disabled to disable News and Interests.