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Re: uninvited guest on taskbar

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On Sat, 1/4/2025 4:19 PM, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  wrote:
> Paul wrote on 1/4/25 6:26 AM:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Windows 11 23H2/24H2
> 
> Are any of these settings present in the following key?
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds
> 
> EnShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode DWORD
> 
> 2193738738 (decimal) = Show icon and text (default)
> 2062503013 (decimal) = Show icon only
> 3496311023 (decimal) = Turn off
> 
> There have been reports of News and Interests not being present and also being present on Win11 23H2/24H2 without any user intervention(Turn off, Group Policy, reg hack).
> 
> On my two Win11 devices - one has the News and Interests taskbar item(23H2) while 24H2 does not.  On 24H2 even 'Widgets' toggled on or off, still not present and nothing to date(since clean install Dec 10th using ISO(install.wim) done to remove, hide, turn off(Windows, GPO or Reg hack. Also, the above referenced reg key(EnShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode) does not exist.
> 

Those aren't present here.

I usually find, if I turn it on, something appears.

But as for the contents of App folders, I can't be looking in the
right places. Maybe some MSEdge or Webview2 cache, has the mechanical
bits of what is presented. But the control of it, I couldn't really
find evidence of it.

And with the way search is going o9 the web, it's almost impossible
to gain any sort of traction any more, on technical queries. Even some
of the references to Reddit, you open the page and only the original
query is present, and nobody has answered the query.

What a time to be alive.

   Paul

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