Permanently disable left slide out widgets window!

YOU ARE MY HERO!!! OMG - that worked. It wasn't easy to find under Bluetooth like you suggested (it's as if it's hidden). I typed in touch and touch settings came up - there it was. I NO LONGER WANT TO THROW MY COMPUTER AT THE WALL. Yay!!

Thank you so much! I would never have found this without you.

I will name my next born child after you.

Same thing in a different way.

I have Win11 Pro on Asus Ally Extreme.

Windows start menu has "edit group policy" application. Policy is just another way to set settings in a way that sticks even when upgrading forward and there are many settings already waiting there.

1. I went to https://aka.ms/EdgeEnterprise page and downloaded the policy file. It took me way too long for my eyes see "Download Windows 64-bit Policy" text on the download page.
2. Followed steps on "Add the administrative template to an individual computer" on the microsoft help : Add the administrative template to an individual computer
3. While in local group policy application I disabled policy "Allow Edge Swipe" (path is : Computer policy, Computer configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Edge UI )

If you need to get the swipe back, just policy needs to be changed to enabled from disabled.

Like in other instructions this change also disabled "right swipe" (and OP requested "left swipe").

So, I used local group policy editor and computer policy side that has "Allow Edge Swipe" named policy that needs to be disabled for swipe to go away and if enabled or not configured swipe will be enabled. There are separated policies for computer and user. User policy did not work for me, but computer policy worked after logging out and back in again.

I prefer this for everyone because instructions are quite easy if not rushed and not all are ready to run with registry editors or tears may fall.

I solved it for me desember 17. Been working absolutely fine.

Run this in powershell as admin.
New-Item -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\edgeUI
New-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\edgeUI -Value 0 -Name "AllowEdgeSwipe"

if new-item gives you " path already exsist" it shouldnt really matter.

reboot and edgeswipe is gone.

or if you dont want to run powershell you could just do the same thing in regedit, create a new dword and give it value 0.

That did the trick.

Thank you!

He did not ask to be rid of it. He asked not to have it flyout unrequested. Twice people say "Remove", but that does not answer the OP's query.

Which is why shutting off Hover was suggested.

Oh, I reread the OP & maybe I'm wrong... sounds more like he is not looking for solutions. So, sure, shut it Off completely, remove its icon.

Cheers,
Drew![Image](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/6c270c16-4b7e-462b-aaeb-c85e2628c1bd?platform=QnA