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Recently Microsoft added a new program to Windows 10 that runs in the taskbar called 'news and interests'. There are many ways to disable this from appearing. But is there a way to remove it?
In the past we had an 'app' that would provide 'news'. And you could remove it using 'get-appx'.
It now appears that Microsoft has made this part of the OS? More and more the end user is being limited to how they can manage the OS?
Or is there a way to remove 'news and interests' like any other 'app'?
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Can this be disabled through Device Manager - Configuration settings?
No I don’t think it can be disabled there, you can disable it in the Windows Registry.
@Stan Kasper
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Hi @Stan Kasper ,
I believe it cannot be removed as of today, it can simply be enabled/disabled.
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There is a relatively new Feeds.admx template file that has one available policy on the machine side, to remove/disable "News & Interests".