How to Enable or Disable Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests in Windows 10


News and interests on the taskbar provides easy access to information that’s important to you, without the distraction of switching between apps, websites, and other devices. View your location’s current weather conditions directly on your taskbar and hover over the icon to see concise, scannable information from sports and stocks to local news and breaking headlines.

The information shown in news and interests is personalized for individual users. Users can customize the content they see, enabling scenarios like the following:

• Keep an eye on nearby weather and traffic that may impact a commute.
  To change the location shown for weather and traffic updates, select More options (…) on the Weather or Traffic card, and select Edit Location.
• Follow a topic related to professional or personal interests.
  Follow a specific topic related to an industry, job role, or subject to learn more about. To follow a specific topic, select Manage Interests and select or search for a topic.
• Get personalized updates on stocks.
  Keep an eye on major market indicators, see top gainers or losers, or create a watch list of stocks to see updates throughout the day.
• Share, save or see more stories.
  Select More options (…) on headlines and articles in news and interests on the taskbar to share them with others or save them to read later. Users can also request to see more or fewer stories like the ones shown.

In addition, the appearance of news and interests on the taskbar can be customized. Users can choose to right click or long press a blank space on the taskbar and select News and interests to customize. They can choose Show icon and text or, to save taskbar space, select Show icon only. Users can also select Turn off to unpin news and interests.

See also:

• Stay up to date with news and interests | Microsoft Support
• Personalized content at a glance: Introducing news and interests on the Windows 10 taskbar | Windows Blogs
• Group configuration: news and interests on the Windows taskbar | Windows IT Pro Blog

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off reduce taskbar updates for news and interests for your account in Windows 10.

The News and interests feature requires the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser to be installed on your PC.

News and interests is only available on primary monitors and where the taskbar is aligned to the bottom of the screen.

The Reduce taskbar updates feature of news and interests is still currently only available for Windows 10 Insider builds.

Contents

• Option One: Turn On or Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests in Taskbar Context Menu
• Option Two: Turn On or Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests in Settings
• Option Three: Turn On or Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests using a REG File

EXAMPLE: News and Interests on taskbar

OPTION ONE

Turn On or Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests in Taskbar Context Menu

This option will not be available while Tablet Mode is turned on.

1 Right click or press and hold on the taskbar on your main display (if you have more than one display). (see screenshot below)

2 Click/tap on News and interests, and click/tap on Reduce taskbar updates to check (on) or uncheck (off - default) it for what you want.

If you selected to Turn off news and interests, the Reduce taskbar updates and Open on hover settings will be disabled and grayed out.

OPTION TWO

Turn On or Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests in Settings

1 Open Settings (Win+i), and click/tap on Personalization.

2 Click/tap on Taskbar in the left pane. (see screenshot below)

3 Under the News and interests section on the right side, turn on or off (default) Reduce updates to news and interests on the taskbar for what you want.

Reduce updates to news and interests on the taskbar will be grayed out if Show news and interests on the taskbar is turned off.

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

OPTION THREE

Turn On or Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests using a REG File

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds

ShellFeedsTaskbarContentUpdateMode DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On

1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.

2 To Turn On Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_on_reduce_taskbar_updates_for_News_and_interests.reg

Download

3 To Turn Off Reduce Taskbar Updates for News and Interests

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_off_reduce_taskbar_updates_for_News_and_interests.reg

Download

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 When finished, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink

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