Considering Windows one of the best operating systems in the Microsoft chain, not only for the implementation of a new interface and performance, but also for the implementation of details that can make a small difference, among them Widgets, back in Windows 10.
What is "News and Interest" in Windows 10?
News and interests is a new feature which has been added in the latest updates of Windows 10, in particular «News and interests» is a widget, which is used to decorate or be part of some parts of the interface of our Windows desktop, also The «News and the interest widget it also serves to indicate surprising news headlines and others in this case.
This can be found in the Windows 10 taskbar, located on the right side of the bar, along with some icons like battery, WiFi, volume, etc. This will provide us with information on latest top news from the most recognized portals, as well as giving us updates on the most current events in our region.
This feature also brings configurations, making it much more new, interesting and customizable, since in it we can modify the type of news it can give us and it also has an archive, so that if we see a news that catches our attention that we want to read later, we can archive it and then find and read it.
Why is the time displayed in the taskbar?
This may appear on the right side of our taskbar and had never appeared before, this is it the current time of the area in which we reside, if it is sunny, cloudy or if there is a storm in some scenarios.
If this icon appears, it means that your Windows, after a recent update, has added the 'News and Interests' function, since this is shown in the form of temperature of our area.
If we click on this icon, it will come displayed as a menu, with some resemblance to the Windows 10 menu, but in this case the news on any topic will come out in a stackable way, such as sports, financial stocks, politics as well as forecasts of the area's climate, traffic, etc.
How to remove the weather widget or «news and interests» from the Windows 10 taskbar?
This function obviously liked many users, as the function is really attractive and can save us time to review the news on our mobile, why Windows decided to implement the function.
However, there is also another large part of users who have not finished enjoying the feature or at least the part where it is located.
Since the information bar overload it might be somewhat useless for some, even for users who have Windows 10 system but want to avoid memory consumption, due to the minimum requirements, if they probably wish to not have this feature and save some information and memory spent.
This is why you may need to remove this widget in case you don't like it or don't need it, this feature of course you can disable it in a very simple way, you just need to follow these steps as follows:
- The first thing will be to position ourselves in the toolbar with the cursor, being there we will press the right mouse button, doing so we will open a list of options, this list of options will offer us from opening the task manager, opening the properties of the bar, hiding the task of the bar or how to enable and disable the functions of the toolbar.
- Within this list or menu of options, we should find a call "News and interests", being here we will click on it and we can choose in this case only the icon is displayed in the bar or if we want to remove it permanently, we will click on «Disconnect».
How to put the weather and news in the system tray if I deleted it by mistake?
There is a chance that someone else or yourself mistakenly clicked incorrectly and you removed the News & Interest feature from the toolbar, however, if it doesn't appear, you don't need to worry, as you can bring this function back about where it was.
Simply to replace the News and interests widget, you have to locate yourself in the toolbar and click the right mouse button, a menu will immediately appear that offers us options, among these "News and interests", followed by this we can select it to appear all . widget itself or just the weather icon.
More weather widgets for the Windows 10 taskbar
Also another very cool feature of the Windows 10 operating system is that it has a application store, in the style of an Android or iOS system, this has been incorporated into Windows in its 8 operating system, however, already in recent updates in the 10 system it brings additional features and functions, not only can we search for apps and games, but we can also go to the aesthetic section and download Widget.
Among the Widgets that we can find in the application store, there is one very popular among Windows users, this gadget is Widget Launcher, it is at least not the Widget with the number 1 position on the platform when searching for the best.
Widget Launcher offers us widgets that we can apply throughout our Windows 10 desktop, among its widget catalog it can offer us the time of different countries, weather and temperature, social networks, calculator, CPU measurement, among others.
All through two skins that we can customize with the different types of colors to our liking, all this totally free, you simply have to download it and start testing it.
