If widgets aren't your thing, it's possible to hide the feature or stop it from running on a Windows 11 PC entirely. Here's how to make the change.

You're probably seeing a lot of stories that are irrelevant to you in the Windows 11 Widgets feed, and here's how to fix that. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Mac users can put any widget on their desktop. Windows puts widgets into a dedicated area that's not really customizable and curates headlines from the absolute worst places on the web.

How to Hide the News in Windows 11. Open the Widgets Board on your device (try not to read the horrible headlines—they'll be gone soon). Click the gear icon in the top-right corner.

Microsoft seems to be testing some new changes for the Windows 11 Start Menu, mainly by adding in floating widgets, in case you didn’t already have some elsewhere on your desktop.