Ability to hide/uninstall "News and interests"

[pm4rcin]

Prerequisites

• Make sure you are able to repro it on the latest released version;
• Verify that this is not a Windows issue;
• Refer to the Before running.
• Refer to the How to use.

Steps to reproduce

Hover right mouse button on weather/news icon to see it.

Screenshots

Environment data

PS C:\Windows\system32> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.19041.1023
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.19041.1023
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Additional context
I think it's probably not possible to uninstall it but I'm not sure. What I know is that you can turn it off with clicking Right mouse button on taskbar and on the "News and interests" there's option to disable that.

[farag2]

You're faster than me. I'm going to add it in the 5.10.6 release this weekend. :) The code is very simple

#Disable
New-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds -Name ShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode -PropertyType DWord -Value 2 -Force

# Restart

The full function will turn the News off instantly, without restarting.