Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-keeps-feeding-tabloid-news
If you go to the search box in Windows 11 or 10 and click on it, likely with the intent of searching for an app or document on your local drive(s), you are presented with a slew of news headlines. Depending on who you are (and perhaps what you’ve clicked before), it can feel like you’re looking at the magazine rack in a supermarket checkout line.
You get even more headlines, with larger photos and more details, if you choose to click on (or possibly just hover over) the weather icon which lives on the left or right side of your taskbar. I just wanted the full forecast today when I clicked, but instead I was presented with this key headline: “Horror as Man Reveals Father-in-Law's Browser History at Family Gathering.”
Don’t get me wrong: I love reading about the 26 year old who spent $50K to look like an alien (in 2017, but covered as news last week) or the 9-foot “man-eating” alligator who came to someone’s door as much as the next person. But that kind of information shouldn’t be delivered as part of my operating system; I can get it on a website or on social media.
Windows is the most popular operating system in the world and people rely on it to get things done. Pumping embarrassing, low-quality news right into utilities like the search box is an unwelcome distraction, especially for someone who is easily distracted by it. You can turn off the search box’s “search highlights,” but they are enabled by default and you can’t remove all of the headlines from the weather widget. You can turn off the widget entirely, but then you won't get the temperature and precipitation right on your taskbar.
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I've never seen it, either. On my work PC, I get a tree showing my managers and direct reports, which I think comes from Teams. Maybe the browser imports data from your apps?
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@Copper said in Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News:
When I click Search in the Taskbar on Windows 11 Pro
That's pretty gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
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@Copper said in Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News:
When I click Search in the Taskbar on Windows 11 Pro
That's pretty gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News:
@Copper said in Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News:
When I click Search in the Taskbar on Windows 11 Pro
That's pretty gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Yes, it is. Thanks for the heads up.
So I clicked the 3-dots at the top and found this, and turned it off:
Now I get this, much more hetero:
