How to Completely Uninstall Widgets from Windows 11

This article explains how to uninstall or remove Widgets from Windows 11.

Widgets are feeds of content such as news, weather, stocks, and traffic that are automatically updated with live information on your widgets board. It is automatically added to the Taskbar after installing Windows 11.

Windows users can turn off or hide Widgets or choose not to open Widgets when hovering on the Taskbar automatically.

If disabling or turning off the Widgets feature isn’t enough, you can remove or uninstall Widgets from Windows 11, and the steps below show you how.

Completely remove Widgets from Windows 11

As described above, Windows users can completely uninstall Widgets from Windows. However, if you can’t uninstall, hiding or disabling Widgets from Windows may help limit distractions.

Here’s how to do it.

First, open the Windows Terminal app, and use the PowerShell tab as administrator.

When the Windows Terminal app opens, run the commands below to uninstall Widgets.

Get-AppxPackage *WebExperience* | Remove-AppxPackage

Next, run the second command below to remove Widgets packages.

winget uninstall --id 9MSSGKG348SP

Restart your computer for the changes to apply.

Reinstall Widgets in Windows 11

If you want to reinstall Widgets after removing it above, open the Windows Terminal app again as administrator.

Then use the PowerShell tab and run the commands below to reinstall Widgets.

winget install --id 9MSSGKG348SP

When prompted to confirm whether to install the Widgets package, type Y for Yes, then wait for Widgets packages to be downloaded and installed.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to uninstall Widgets from Windows 11 completely. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.