📊 VBA (Excel)
Apply Disable News and Interests Feed (VBA)
Hides the taskbar News and Interests / Widgets feed. Applied via WScript.Shell.RegWrite from VBA.
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