If you are like me using a Surface Pro device with only 8 GB of RAM or trying to squeeze a bit of device’s performance, you’d definitely does not want to waste your precious RAM space for unnecessary programs or services. In this post I’ll demonstrate how to remove Widgets on Windows 11.
What is Widgets on Windows 11
According to MS doc “Windows Widgets are small UI containers that display text and graphics, associated with an app installed on the device. Installed widgets are displayed in a grid in the Widgets Board: a flyout plane that overlays the Windows desktop when the user clicks Widgets icon on the taskbar, uses the Windows + W shortcut, or swipes from the left edge of the screen.”
“Widgets help people to stay on top of what’s important to them by aggregating personalized content and quick actions from the apps they use. They are quickly consumable and actionable. Widgets are not meant to replace apps and websites, but rather provide frictionless access to most-needed information or often-used functionalities that people can read/trigger right away.”
Can I disable Widgets on Windows 11
Nope, you cannot disable it via Settings app nor GPO only except remove it completely.
How to remove Widgets on Windows 11
To remove Widgets from Windows 11 you can follow below steps:
1.Open Terminal or PowerShell with admin rights > enter winget uninstall “Windows Web Experience pack”.
2.After few seconds searching and processing, you should see the progress bar reach to 100% and shows “Successfully uninstalled”.
3.To verify, press Esc + Shift + Ctrl to open Task Manager > search for Widgets. There should be no such process in the result.
If you saw a prompt asking your to agree all the source agreements terms, you should enter with Y to agree. Otherwise the operation will be cancelled due to the source agreements were not agreed to and may not removed completely.
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