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How do I disable Widget Board?

Anonymous
2025-01-13T15:35:34+00:00

I think the horrible new Windows feature that interrupts my work is called "Widget Board". I'd like to get rid of it forever. I already have Widgets disabled in my Personalization Taskbar settings. But when I am using touchscreen to navigate, especially when I'm reading, I often cause that terrible window to slide in from the left, interrupting my work. LLM's don't seem to know how to disable it. Is there a solution?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T17:13:09+00:00

    It should completely disable the Widgets feature including the Widgets Board.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T16:27:26+00:00

    Thanks, Shawn. I haven't tried that registry solution, but I think it just disables widgets, not the Widget Board. The problem for users using a touchscreen all-in-one computer is the Widget Board itself. If you're using the device as a tablet and the touchscreen to navigate, almost anyone will regularly activate the Widget Board by accident interrupting whatever he's doing. Depending on what you're trying to do, this can be a crippling imposition. The only workaround I know is to disable the swipe from left edge option. That will solve the Widget Board accidental intrusion problem, but may impose other restrictions I haven't discovered yet. I'll wait for your reply in case I'm wrong about the solution you suggested. Otherwise, I'll answer my own question with the swipe-from-left-edge solution as the answer.

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