Windows 10 – How to disable News and Interests on taskbar

If you recently perform Windows Update, you will noticed that News and Interests widget installed on the taskbar.

For those who like it, this widget is useful. You will see a weather forecast in a small box next to the clock and notification area. Selecting the widget opens a panel with more weather info, stocks, sports scores, news, and more. But if you don’t like it, you can disable it.

For those who want to disable News and Interests appear on taskbar, just follow below steps:-

  1. Mouse over to taskbar, and right click
  2. From the menu, select “News and Interests” and then click “Turn Off” from the submenu.

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How to add, remove and display Static Route on Windows 2008/2012?


By referring to wikipedia, Static routing is a form of routing that occurs when a router uses a manually-configured routing entry, rather than information from a dynamic routing traffic.

Static routes are usually configured at the router level but you can also configure them from you locally (Windows OS) via command line.

Below are the few useful command line to work with static route in Windows.

A) To show the routing table, there are two command available

  • route print
  • netstat -rn

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Windows 10: How to Sign out


The sign in and out functions in Windows 10 are now different compared to previous versions of windows.

Now the method to sign out from the windows is:

  • Click the Start Menu
  • Move the cursor to your PC / User name at the top left corner of the start menu
  • Right Click, and you will see the option to sign out there

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  • The shotcut way to do this is by pressing Windows Logo + X

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