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> The only way to get rid of it is a Powershell incantation that removes the entire Widgets feature. Better than terrible news, but still nuts. You don’t need
by Kwpolska 4y ago
> The only way to get rid of it is a Powershell incantation that removes the entire Widgets feature. Better than terrible news, but still nuts.
You don’t need PowerShell to get rid of Widgets. You can disable it with three clicks: right click on the Taskbar, go to Taskbar settings, and toggle the switch next to Widgets at the top of the window.
- gigel82 4y agoThat hides the UI entry point, but widgets.exe continues running, along with 5-6 edgewebview2.exe processes, taking up valuable resources. If you try to kill widgets.exe, a system service restarts it :( Unfortunately, the powershell incantation is the only way to get rid of it...
- permo-w 4y agowill there not be some registry entry you can change?
- gigel82 4y agoNo, there is no way to disable it via registry or group policy that I know of.
- SpaghettiCthulu 4y agoThese "powershell incantations" usually modify the registry or group policy, or delete or replace system files behind the scenes. And from my experience the ones that modify system files often don't persist across system updates.
- gigel82 4y agowinget uninstall "Windows web experience Pack" Get-AppxPackage *WebExperience* | Remove-AppxPackage
- benhurmarcel 4y agoI just checked, and yes you're right. But it uses 1.2 MB of RAM, and no CPU.