How to remove the widgets button from windows 11.

How to remove the widgets button from windows 11. within windows 11 the widgets drawer is huge but what if you don't want widgets you can get rid of the widgets button from your taskbar in just a few easy steps in fact if you don't use the search icon or even task view you can remove those icons from your taskbar as well widgets are the windows 11 reboot of news and interests the windows 10 feature that pre-selects news weather sports scores and stock prices and collect them in a small widget that lives at the bottom of your screen in windows 11 clicking the widgets button slides out a massive widgets drawer from the left hand side of your screen complete with a search window in the latest build there's the weather local traffic your microsoft to do lists your photos from onedrive sports and esports your stock watch list and tips there is an easy way to get rid of the widgets button right click the taskbar itself and select taskbar settings you'll then be taken to the windows 11 settings menu where you'll see four toggles one for search one for task view one for chat and another for widgets you can turn off any or all of them and those buttons will vanish from your taskbar of course widgets will remain active on windows 11 but the best part for you is that you will no longer see it and have the possibility to get to them also if you want to bring them back you will have to do the same and just activate the toggle for widgets but what if you want to also uninstall the widgets from windows 11 microsoft changed the way widgets so the app runs in the background even with the option turned off as a matter of fact if you look in the task manager you see here even if the widgets button is disabled the app is running in the background if you want to stop the app from running automatically you have to remove widgets completely to uninstall widgets in windows 11 you will have to do the following the easiest way of doing this is by opening a command prompt or powershell as an administrator you can do that by clicking the search icon and writing in the input cmd or power cell please click now on run as administrator here type the following command in the window the command will appear on the screen also you can copy it from the description of the video click enter from the keyboard you will need to agree to the microsoft store's terms and conditions type y to accept or in to cancel the operation if you chose yes the widget package manager will delete the widgets apps package you will see a message in the command window that says successfully uninstalled check the task manager and you should no longer see the widgets among the list of background processes the toggle for the app will also be removed from the taskbar settings okay i deleted the app but i want it back now what do i do if you need the widgets back open the following link in your browser the link will appear on the screen also you can check the description of the video for the link it is for an app made by microsoft called windows web experience pack it's hidden in the store app so you won't find it by searching just click the get button in your browser and it will open the store app tap on get or install now the widgets pack will be installed and you would be able to use it again that's it before you leave please tell us in the comments if you like or hate the new widgets on windows 11. also smash the like button and subscribe to the channel for more tech videos you how to remove the widgets button from windows 11. within windows 11 the widgets drawer is huge but what if you don't want widgets you can get rid of the widgets button from your taskbar in just a few easy steps in fact if you don't use the search icon or even task view you can remove those icons from your taskbar as well widgets are the windows 11 reboot of news and interests the windows 10 feature that pre-selects news weather sports scores and stock prices and collect them in a small widget that lives at the bottom of your screen in windows 11 clicking the widgets button slides out a massive widgets drawer from the left hand side of your screen complete with a search window in the latest build there's the weather local traffic your microsoft to do lists your photos from onedrive sports and esports your stock watch list and tips there is an easy way to get rid of the widgets button right click the taskbar itself and select taskbar settings you'll then be taken to the windows 11 settings menu where you'll see four toggles one for search one for task view one for chat and another for widgets you can turn off any or all of them and those buttons will vanish from your taskbar of course widgets will remain active on windows 11 but the best part for you is that you will no longer see it and have the possibility to get to them also if you want to bring them back you will have to do the same and just activate the toggle for widgets but what if you want to also uninstall the widgets from windows 11 microsoft changed the way widgets so the app runs in the background even with the option turned off as a matter of fact if you look in the task manager you see here even if the widgets button is disabled the app is running in the background if you want to stop the app from running automatically you have to remove widgets completely to uninstall widgets in windows 11 you will have to do the following the easiest way of doing this is by opening a command prompt or powershell as an administrator you can do that by clicking the search icon and writing in the input cmd or power cell please click now on run as administrator here type the following command in the window the command will appear on the screen also you can copy it from the description of the video click enter from the keyboard you will need to agree to the microsoft store's terms and conditions type y to accept or in to cancel the operation if you chose yes the widget package manager will delete the widgets apps package you will see a message in the command window that says successfully uninstalled check the task manager and you should no longer see the widgets among the list of background processes the toggle for the app will also be removed from the taskbar settings okay i deleted the app but i want it back now what do i do if you need the widgets back open the following link in your browser the link will appear on the screen also you can check the description of the video for the link it is for an app made by microsoft called windows web experience pack it's hidden in the store app so you won't find it by searching just click the get button in your browser and it will open the store app tap on get or install now the widgets pack will be installed and you would be able to use it again