Getting the most out of Windows 11 Widgets | Walkthrough

Like it or not, Microsoft has made it clear that Windows 11 Widgets are here to stay. In this video I show you how to disable them, but also how to get the most out of them and what potential they might have for the future.

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[LeoAugustRocks]

The problem with Widgets in Windows 11 (aside from the ads and privacy intrusion) is that they are accessed via a taskbar menu. They need to be desktop widgets - always there, on the desktop, without having to click a menu. Until that's the case, I'll keep them off.

[RHILIX]

you need to be able to move the widgets out on your desktop like you could 10 years ago, rather then them being stuck in an ugly ass box on one side of your screen taking up most of the space .

[Ntech]

It's all on one page, I don't consider those widgets. Widgets are exposed on the desktop and live not something you have to search for in a folder. These are simply links.

[elcapitan]

Turned mine off after just a few minutes. In the Level1Techs Windows11 video Wendell speaks about how many anti-patterns the OS has and the widgets panel is full of them. If it was the Windows Vista implementation but improved I would have liked it but its clearly designed to show you as many ads as possible rather than cool / informative / useful widgets.

[eziothedeadpoet]

Until I can disable all of the news that widget stuff stays disabled.

[unitedfools]

Remember when widgets were going to transform the way we live when they were in Windows Vista?

They're just inconvenient notifications and I already hate notifications.

[calendil]

Hello, is there a way to remove the news feed from Widgets panel?

[haseebasif]

Your channel and videos are genuinely good and especially your room, Very underated guy honestly. Love ya

[Ryzza]

1:29 The Time shown in the widgets panel is one hour slower than the time shown in your taskbar. Why?

[gmt]

Even if I disable it, knowing Windows, it'll just keep running in the background regardless. I'll spend an hour or so researching whether I can completely uninstall it, along with People and Teams.They literally couldn't design a single useful UI feature if their lives depended on it. Why can't we put widgets on the desktop? Why a whole new panel over just placing them in the Start Menu? Why can't we put _any_ program in it like with Live Tiles? You can't even change the browser or search engine the Widgets use without third-party programs.

[ghostrill]

Can someone help me? Widgets is not showing up whenever i press it.

[IVO_]

How do I get your wallpaper? It's awesome! :)

[AakashT]

I love it. Just for Esports and sports updates.

[nDix]

Summer 2024: There are no new widgets and it only shows the "news from clickbat or fake sources"

[bigboyrenki]

I'm floored by how hard Windows missed the potential of widgets

[Michelle_Schu-blacka]

I just want to customise it so it has useful information that I want, like the tiles in W10. This is just an endless rolling cluster of news that I'm not interested in, from sources I'm not interested in and can't disable, rendering the whole thing useless.

I just want weather, the latest stories from my topics, my calendar and a couple of third party tiles, like in W10.

[johnblack]

Hate it... it's not a widget if you can't individually move them anywhere on your screen.

[ralphyo]

I cannot get widgets app to load any content and no matter how many times i click reload nothing comes up. I tried all to no avail.

[shanksisnoteventhatstrongbruh]

is that the $60 super small pop filter? does it work well?

[fosterful]

Can it stay there everytime loke when i turn on laptop?