Are you into Widgets?

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Coming up in the May updates are more widgets on the lock screen. Apologies for the slightly blurry photo but I took it from an iphone as I couldn’t g
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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How to make your PC behave like your phone.

Hardly the reason I sit down in front of the PC, but it is why I whip my phone out for 10 seconds.

cheers, Paul

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How to make your PC behave like your phone.

Yeah, Windows Phone worked out well didn’t it?

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Susan Bradley wrote:

So will you use widgets on the lock screen? Will you adjust it to something else?

Yes; but I want Weather without “… and more”, which is now not possible; as I have zero interest in markets or traffic. I think I left feedback that they need to split those out to give more granular control.

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No, we are not into Widgets and have had them disabled for years.

I take the dog out first thing in the morning and get a pretty good idea about the weather then.

If I want a weather forecast, I click on a desktop icon for the National Weather Service https://forecast.weather.gov .  In our case the link is tied to our zip code so I get the weather conditions and forecast from the small airport less than ten miles away.

Same approach for regional weather radar, river gages, the news, market conditions, and other frequently visited Internet sites.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

I would love if Microsoft would spend more time on quality control in updates than widgets on a home screen.

Does the widgets team test cumulative updates in their spare time?

Can’t a Microsoft-sized company do several things simultaneously?

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No widgets on my lock screen. I prefer to wait until the computer is unlocked to check on my mail, calendar, or the weather. Like yours, my monitor switches from lock screen to off quickly if I do not press a key or move the mouse.

And as Paul T said, if I want a quick update on which emails have arrived or what the weather is, I use my phone, not the computer lock screen.

Dell XPS17, 11th Gen Intel I7, 64gb RAM, Windows 11 Home 24H2

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Ever since the April win 10 22h2 update, I cannot get ANY lock screen widget to appear where weather had been there for many years. AND I have no weather”and more” choice. So April broke something.

Got a fix? Hope that May repairs what was broken?

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No widgets wanted here. Besides, my lockscreen is disabled thanks to WinAero Tweaks. No need for it in my use case. The computer goes straight to the sign-in, thank you very much.

I, too, wish more resources at MS would be focused on testing updates, debugging existing features and time-and-motion productivity of the UI rather than new shiny objects.  Seems like too much focus on the “packaging” and too little on the actual “product” in the box, so to speak.

Win10 Pro x64 22H2, Win10 Home 22H2, Linux Mint + a cat with 'tortitude'.

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my monitor switches from lock screen to off quickly if I do not press a key or move the mouse.

Just curious, does “lock screen to off quickly” mean your computer shuts down or the screen just sleeps or something else?

 

 

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Monitor goes off.  Computer sleeps but wakes on mouse movement.

Dell XPS17, 11th Gen Intel I7, 64gb RAM, Windows 11 Home 24H2

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I don’t have any widgets.  Haven’t had any since I deleted them from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps, several months (if not longer) ago.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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Are these Lock Screen widgets coming in the Win10 May update, too? Or just Win11?

Is there a way to turn them off — so you don’t get any of them ever?

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This appears in the original article:

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b wrote:

This appears in the original article:

OK, so there’s no switch to turn the feature OFF; instead, the feature is not turn-off-able — you select “none” and you get no widgets?

Is this a Win10 screen? or a Win11 screen?

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WCHS wrote:

Are these Lock Screen widgets coming in the Win10 May update, too? … Is there a way to turn them off — so you don’t get any of them ever?

Hi WCHS:

The release notes for the Win 10 KB5036979 (OS Build 19045.4355) Preview released on 23-Apr-2024 state in part:

New! This update affects Widgets on the lock screen. They are more reliable and have improved quality. This update also supports more visuals and a more customized experience for you.

See the 15-Mar-2024 ghacks.net Next Windows 10 update brings Windows Spotlight, Lock screen content, and another Windows 11 upgrade offer about the slow rollout of lock screen widgets on Win 10 as well as the Win 10 setting at Settings | Personalization | Lock Screen you should see after this feature starts rolling out to your Win 10 machine.

I posted some info about this lock screen widget setting on my Win 10 machine in my 12-Apr-2024 post # 2659058 of Susan Bradley’s April updates pour in but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s 14-May-2024 Patch Tuesday updates to see what actually gets pushed out to your own system and how much control it offers.  Everything I’ve read so far says you should be able to easily remove any widgets added to your Win 10 lock screen at Settings | Personalization | Lock Screen if you don’t want them.
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lmacri wrote:

See the 15-Mar-2024 ghacks.net …

lmacri wrote:

I posted some info about this lock screen widget setting on my Win 10 machine in my 12-Apr-2024 post # 2659058 of Susan Bradley’s April updates pour in but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s 14-May-2024 Patch Tuesday updates to see what actually gets pushed out to your own system and how much control it offers.

Hi @lmacri,
Yeah, I read your post # 2659058 and your mention of the ghacks article in the April-update-pour-in thread right after it appeared (my ‘Thank You’ is there), but this Are-you-into-widgets? thread of Susan’s seemed to show more to expect.

However, I just re-read the ghacks article and note now that it says that it could take “even months before they land on some user systems.” So, I’m not holding my breath – not even until tomorrow and will just wait and see whatever whenever.

Same goes for Copilot on Windows 10.

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