Use the following steps to enable news and interests to open on hover: Enable taskbar news and interests open on hover
Once you complete the steps, the widget will no longer open when accidentally hovering over the weather icon. Select the news and interests menu and clear the Open on hover option. Use the following steps to disable open on hover for news and interests:
In addition, we will look into the steps to enable the option again.
In this guide, you will learn the steps to prevent the news and interests widget from opening on mouse hover.
However, Windows 10 includes an option to disable the open on hover feature, or you can even disable the news widget entirely. Although this gives you quick access to the latest feed, it is not something that everyone likes since you can accidentally open the widget more times than you want to use the feature. On Windows 10, the news and interests widget opens automatically as soon as you hover the mouse over the weather icon in the taskbar.