Windows 11 now lets you control the widgets that appear in the Lock Screen, and you can even disable the feature completely.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is rolling out a taskbar notification system to its Windows 11 widgets ...

Meta's Messenger app is the first third-party widget to be available in the Windows 11 widget board -- but the support for third-party widgets is only for users running the latest Windows 11 preview.

Microsoft is expanding Windows 11's live caption functionality to seven more languages and more English dialects. The Windows 11 2022 Update launched with system-wide live captions, which generated ...

What’s old is new again. Nearly two decades ago, Microsoft introduced support for widgets (called gadgets) that displayed snippets of information in a sidebar for Windows Vista. It became an optional ...

Windows 11 may soon have a new home for the widget button for those with the taskbar aligned to the left. Windows 11 build 22635.3420, which was released in the Beta Channel on March 29, 2024, moves ...

Microsoft just rolled out Windows 11 Build 25324 to Insiders in the Canary Channel. The update improves the widgets board, including support for three columns on certain devices. A new USB4 Settings ...

Microsoft has added Phone Link widget support to its Windows 11 Dev Channel Insiders. With the latest app version, 1.23011.73.0, Windows Insiders can now add the Phone Link widget to their widget ...

Windows 11’s widget system has mostly consisted of Microsoft-made apps, but now a major developer is working on using the feature. Windows 11’s widget system has mostly consisted of Microsoft-made ...

Windows 11 comes with a great many features and one of those is the widget board, which as one would have it, now includes a dedicated widget for Xbox Game Pass. There is one caveat though. To access ...