📊 VBA (Excel)

Apply Disable News and Interests Feed (VBA)

Hides the taskbar News and Interests / Widgets feed. Applied via WScript.Shell.RegWrite from VBA.

By WindowsScripting.com · 451 B
DisableNewsAndInterestsRegSet.bas
Attribute VB_Name = "DisableNewsAndInterestsRegSet"
Option Explicit

Public Sub DisableNewsAndInterestsRegSet()
    Dim wsh As Object
    Dim regPath As String

    Set wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    regPath = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Feeds\ShellFeedsTaskbarViewMode"

    wsh.RegWrite regPath, 2, "REG_DWORD"

    MsgBox "Disable News and Interests Feed applied." & vbCrLf & regPath, vbInformation
End Sub