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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: uninvited guest on taskbar |
| Date | 2025-01-04 08:26 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vlbctf$fpp4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <MPG.41e1e5fcd48c40b39896b7@reader80.eternal-september.org> |
On Fri, 1/3/2025 12:18 PM, jason_warren wrote:
> It seems that MS has gifted me an item that shows in
> the taskbar that I wish to dispose of. It opens a window
> that purports to show me news, weather etc etc. It must
> have arrived with an update. I cannot find it in startup
> items. How do I get rid of it?
>
Design has changed again :-/
As Van says, at one time, you right clicked on a clear area on the right,
on the Task Bar, and a menu full of "pest control" entries used to appear.
News and Interests was one of them, and your only form of control was
to "Hide" the graphical output. But the code was still running
inside the machine. Someone over in Win10, located the activity
as belonging to the SearchApp. One of the pest features, is
News and Interests needs to run a private Location Service, in
order for it to get the Weather Widget to report the temperature
for your city. While third party applications, there is a privacy
control to turn off the system location service (so browsers cannot
geolocate to the nears lumber yard), there is no Privacy Control
for SearchApp. The SearchApp seems to run the search box on the
taskbar, and like a few things on the machine, everything you search
for (via browser URLs or entries or via search box typing), that
is all sent to head office for sale to advertisers. Maybe your Interests
are also the Interests of Advertisers.
*******
The only control in 23H2 (on the right of me) and 24H2 (on the left of me),
is the Widget control
Personalization : Taskbar
Search Hide
Task View Off
Widgets Off <=== News and Interests is the left mode widget, this Hides it, does not Stop it
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/pVfCrNm7/W11-News-Interests-Widgets.gif
I flipped on the control, on a fresh install, and the weather city
was wrong. The Location method then, we have to wait a
bit for it to refine the location it has for you. It seemed to work,
back when it first came out.
Paul
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