Then it will no longer appear, and you don’t have to worry about it. To get rid of it from the taskbar entirely, a better solution is to right-click the Weather icon and go to News and interests > Turn off. Remove the News and Interests Widget from Windows 10 Taskbar It won’t just open up if you hover the mouse cursor over it. But you will have to manually click it to open the widget. The icon and/or text will still be on the taskbar. You might want to turn off the “hover action.” Right-click the icon and go to News and interests and uncheck Open on hover. Still, you can accidentally hover over that icon and the News and Interests widget will open. You can also turn off activating it when you hover the cursor over it.īelow is an example of just showing the icon. There you can select to show icon only, turn it off, or enable it again. Right-click the Weather icon on the taskbar and go up to News and interests on the menu. Just click the Manage interests button.Īdjust the News and Interests Widget Behavior on Windows 10Ĭhanging the behavior of the News and Interests widget on the Windows 10 taskbar is similar to managing Search on the taskbar. You can manage the topics that are displayed on the widget. It displays weather, news and finance headlines, traffic, and more. It will pop up if you hover over the weather icon on the right side of the taskbar. Here is an example of the News and Interests taskbar widget.