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Edwin · 17 Apr 2021

Brink said:

Hello Edwin,

Currently, only able to turn it off.

Customization - How to Add or Remove News and Interests icon on Taskbar in Windows 10 | Windows Questions

Suspected that! Thanks Shawn.

robgr · 17 Apr 2021

Noah W said:

How is Easeus compared to Macrium? is it better than Macrium and would it still work with my corrupted VSS?

Try AOMEI

MikeMecanic · 17 Apr 2021

Edwin said:

How do you uninstall News and Interests???

A more robust method to kill news feed:

Code:

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds" /v "IsFeedsAvailable"  /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f

Code:

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds\FeedRepositoryState" /v "FeedEnabled"  /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f

1=ON, 0=OFF.

Setting the first one at <<1>> triggers the second parameter. Double clicking the news dedicated space on the taskbar, restores the feed.

Uninstall? Not there yet, but this method does the work by blocking outbound traffic.

No icon, no feed, no uninstall. A no nothing reg tweak.

TairikuOkami · 17 Apr 2021

Edwin said:

How do you uninstall News and Interests???

You can remove Cortana, that will render News inactive, you will get just a dead inactive icon.

Code:

takeown /s %computername% /u %username% /f "%WINDIR%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe"
icacls "%WINDIR%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe" /inheritance:r /grant:r %username%:F
taskkill /im SearchApp.exe /f
del "%WINDIR%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe" /s /f /q

Noah W said:

How is Easeus compared to Macrium? is it better than Macrium and would it still work with my corrupted VSS?

Macrium says, that is corrupted as it did in my case, but EasyUS worked, you can try it out.

ish4d0w · 17 Apr 2021

TairikuOkami said:

You can remove Cortana, that will render News inactive, you will get just a dead inactive icon.

Code:

takeown /s %computername% /u %username% /f "%WINDIR%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe"
icacls "%WINDIR%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe" /inheritance:r /grant:r %username%:F
taskkill /im SearchApp.exe /f
del "%WINDIR%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe" /s /f /q

But wouldn't this damage the installation and set off dism integrity checks?

TairikuOkami · 17 Apr 2021

ish4d0w said:

But wouldn't this damage the installation and set off dism integrity checks?

That depends on what you want, a process taking 200MB RAM even if you do not use it?

Edwin · 17 Apr 2021

TairikuOkami said:

...You can remove Cortana, that will render News inactive, you will get just a dead inactive icon...

I don't have Cortana, I don't have Edge, I'm not even signed in with an MS account!
Gotta be sumpthin else!

IronZorg89 · 17 Apr 2021

Noah W said:

How is Easeus compared to Macrium? is it better than Macrium and would it still work with my corrupted VSS?

They are both great Apps; it is only a matter of choice. As a matter-of-fact, I use both of them. Most members in TF have a penchant for MR and I have been using it for a long time and never incurred any problem.

Now, that your Start Menu is working, as @Caledon Ken already asked: is your MR working now?. I would try to run the DISM command-lines first thing:

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /checkhealth
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /scanhealth
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
sfc /scannow
dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

The last one "StartComponentCleanup" is run only if the previous one "AnalyzeComponentStore" gives the green light, i.e., "Yes" as you may already know.

TairikuOkami · 17 Apr 2021

Edwin said:

I don't have Cortana

News and Interests is Cortana.

Edwin · 17 Apr 2021

TairikuOkami said:

News and Interests is Cortana.

Ahhh!!! That took care of it!!!

Thank You!