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  Re: Remove News and Interests from taskbar Andy Burnelli <nospam@nospam.net> - 2023-02-24 01:14 +0000
    Re: Remove News and Interests from taskbar Unsteadyken <unsteadyken@gmail.com> - 2023-02-24 02:41 +0000
      Re: Remove News and Interests from taskbar Andy Burnelli <nospam@nospam.net> - 2023-02-23 23:23 -0800
        Re: Remove News and Interests from taskbar Unsteadyken <unsteadyken@gmail.com> - 2023-02-24 09:47 +0000
    Re: Remove News and Interests from taskbar John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2023-02-24 10:14 +0000

#1955 — Re: Remove News and Interests from taskbar

sticks wrote:

> Did you look at the third option using group policy editor?

I don't remember how I got rid of "News and Interests" but I've gotten rid 
of _everything_ I don't want in my taskbar and it's certainly not there.

So my advice to the OP is that it's _certainly_ possible to wipe it out.

Here's a screenshot of my taskbar I took for another thread earlier today
on using the Windows keyboard to message on Android - where I don't even 
know what the "news and interests" should look like - but it's not there.

 <https://i.postimg.cc/pr13NYWW/android-on-windows.jpg>

Note my philosophy is the taskbar should not take up valuable real estate 
(which is why it's on the side) and that the taskbar should contain only 
what's needed (which is why the pullout menu is there to access all apps).

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#1956

In article <tt930a$3ae3e$1@paganini.bofh.team>,
 
Andy Burnelli says...

> Note my philosophy is the taskbar should not take up valuable real estate 
> (which is why it's on the side) 
> 

And thats why you don't see it, News & Information  option is only 
available if the taskbar location is set to bottom of screen. 

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#1957

Unsteadyken wrote:

>> Note my philosophy is the taskbar should not take up valuable real estate 
>> (which is why it's on the side) 
>> 
> 
> And thats why you don't see it, News & Information  option is only 
> available if the taskbar location is set to bottom of screen.

Holy cow! Really? 

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but if _that_ is the reason, it's
amazing since the only reason I put the taskbar to the side is that most
screens are challenged in the up:down direction, and less so side:side.

Here is that screenshot again, where the "menu" is a complete pullout just
like the WinXP days, where the cascade menu never left Windows (ever).
 <https://i.postimg.cc/pr13NYWW/android-on-windows.jpg>

Given the menu is to the side, maybe that's why "News & Info" isn't there.

Even so, I've explicitly turned off stuff, one by one, such as the Cortana
search, and the Start Menu, Notifications, even the time:date is modified.

Notice for example, my time:date is in the format of the day of the week, 
the month, the day of the month, and then the time in AM/PM irrespective of
the system clock (since my tzone changes randomly every few hours or so).

In summary, my taskbar was optimized for efficiency, where I didn't know
why "News & Information" wasn't there, but thanks to you, now I know why.

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#1958

In article <tt9okm$3cloq$1@paganini.bofh.team>,
 
Andy Burnelli says...

> > And thats why you don't see it, News & Information  option is only 
> > available if the taskbar location is set to bottom of screen.
> 
> Holy cow! Really? 
> 
> I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but if _that_ is the reason, it's
> amazing since the only reason I put the taskbar to the side is that most
> screens are challenged in the up:down direction, and less so side:side.
> 
Not joking, try it temporarily. I only found out by accident.

I run 2 widescreen monitors in Extended Desktop mode with both taskbars 
set to right side and had never seen News & Information.

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#1959

In message <tt930a$3ae3e$1@paganini.bofh.team>, Andy Burnelli 
<nospam@nospam.net> writes
>sticks wrote:
>
>> Did you look at the third option using group policy editor?
>
>I don't remember how I got rid of "News and Interests" but I've gotten 
>rid of _everything_ I don't want in my taskbar and it's certainly not 
>there.
>
>So my advice to the OP is that it's _certainly_ possible to wipe it out.
<snip>

I too got rid of it, and my taskbar IS at the bottom of the screen. I 
can't remember how I removed it, but I do recall that it was based on 
advice in this newsgroup the last time the topic came up.
-- 
John Hall     "Do you have cornflakes in America?"
               "Well, actually, they're American."
       "So what brings you to Britain then if you have cornflakes already?"
                                   Bill Bryson: "Notes from a Small Island"

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