How to Remove Widgets Button from Windows 10 & 11 (4 Easy Way)

Microsoft added an annoying feature of the widgets button to Windows 10 recently that is the News and Interests widget. If you are wondering where these widgets appear, you can find them on the left side of the desktop. It depends on you how you want to personalize your experience either by adding or removing widgets, re-arranging, resizing, and customizing the content. 

You can do this operation by just clicking on the widget’s icon on the Taskbar, swiping from the left using touch, or using the shortcut “WIN + W” on your keyboard, doing this will slide out your widgets from the leftover on your desktop. There are many more new exciting features of widgets on Windows 11. So, before removing the widget check out its new time and date display features and the new highlights of your choice by using the keyboard shortcut “Windows+W”.

Microsoft adds these Widgets buttons to the taskbar by default. Widgets facilitate you to view the information you want easily with just one click. It easily connects you to various features like calendar, weather, local traffic, Microsoft To-Do lists, photos from OneDrive, sports, stock watchlist, and tips. your photos from OneDrive, sports and esports, your stock watchlist, tips, etc, and collect them in a small widget that lives at the bottom of your screen.

However, the space occupied by these widgets on the left side of the screen is not liked by many people, which may cause a hindrance to them. One disadvantage of these widgets is that they are immovable and cannot be resized though their content is adjustable. The feature of widgets is more elegant in windows 11 but most people are still not fans of this feature. The good news is that you can turn it on or off at your convenience. 

So, if you are not a fan of this feature then you need not worry about this. You can remove these widgets from the taskbar in just a few simple steps. If you do not like the Search icon, you can also remove those icons or even the Task View option, you can also remove those icons from your Taskbar. Below are a few steps mentioned which can be followed to get rid of this widget’s features. 

How to Remove Widgets Button in Windows 10

There are various ways to remove or add the widget button on the screen. They are:

Method 1

One of the easiest and the simplest ways to add or remove the widgets button on your taskbar is mentioned below, use the following steps to remove them:

• First of all, open the Windows Settings.
• Select the Personalization section in the setting.
• Click on the Taskbar tab, from the left plane.
• Under the “Show Widgets button”, you will see a toggle switch. Turn it to On or (Off) to add (Remove) the “Widgets button” on your device.

Method 2

The second method is to  add or remove the widgets button using the Taskbar Context Menu. to do so, the following steps are needed to be followed:

• Go to the Taskbar 
• Right-click on the Widgets button.
• You will see a context menu with an option of Unpin from the taskbar
• Select the unpin option
• Doing this will remove the Widgets button from the taskbar on your device.

Method 3

The third method is to remove the widgets button through the settings app. You can use the taskbar settings to remove the widgets button from the taskbar area. The following instructions are mentioned below which can be used to remove the widgets button:

• Open Settings from the menu or use the “Windows+I” keyboard shortcut to open them.
• Choose the “Personalization” option.
• Now click on the Taskbar tab from the options on the left.
• Turn the toggle switch off which you can see under the “Show Widgets button”.
• After following the instructions mentioned above you will see that the Widgets button has disappeared from the taskbar. 
• However, you can still view the widgets whenever you want by using the keyboard shortcut “Windows+W” to open the widgets.

Method 4

The next method is to remove the widgets by using a registry. You can use some of the Windows registries to get rid of these widgets. It is one of the simplest methods to remove the widgets. Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Create a DWORD of 32-bit and name it as TaskbarDa and assign it a value of 0. The values assigned to DWORD 32-bit have different values. It has a different values of 0 and 1, the values are:

• To hide the icon – 0
• To show the icon – 1

How to Remove Widgets Buttons in Windows 11

In Windows 11 Widget is using more space on the desktop if you are not a big fan of widget or don’t use it you can remove the widgets.
When you select the Widgets button in Windows 11 on the left side you will see a box full of widgets. It contains several features such as local traffic, weather, your OneDrive images, sports, your stock watchlist, and tips.

Method 1

This is the simplest and most convenient way to disable the widget display option on your Windows 11 PC. Go to Taskbar after that right-click on the Widgets button and click Unpin from Taskbar.

Method 2

Go to Taskbar right-click on it from the context menu and click on the Taskbar Settings.
Another way to open Taskbar settings is you can go to Settings and then select Personalization>Taskbar.
Now three toggle switches will appear- Task View, Search, and Widgets. So slide to the left side to turn off the toggle switch of the Widgets.

How to add the Widgets back 

Once you complete the above-mentioned steps, you will notice that the Widgets button has disappeared from the taskbar on the display of the device. The above steps help hide the Widgets option and if you want to view the widgets for once you can use the keyboard shortcut “Windows+W” to open it.

 But if somehow you want to add the widgets button again on the screen then you need to follow the above steps and just change the values like in the case of toggle button turn it off, in case of registry assign the value 1 to DWORD and if you have unpinned the particular app then from the search box search for the app and you will see an option to “pin it to taskbar” click on it and you will be done.

Conclusion

Widgets are a feature of Windows that facilitates you to view your desired application easily just with one click without any bother of searching them in the search bar or main menu as they are pinned to the taskbar and are easily viewable. In this article, we have seen different methods to remove these widgets from the device. And if in any case, you want to add them back it is also explained. So, if you are also not a fan of this feature of windows then you can get help from this article to remove them. We hope that it will prove to be helpful to you and clear all your doubts.