{"id":51740,"date":"2026-03-26T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=51740"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:39:36","slug":"home-computer-use-windows-11-widgets-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-windows-11-widgets-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use: Windows 11: Widgets Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Windows 11: the tutor mentions something that occasionally demands attention.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nOccasionally, when I am in an online meeting, a panel opens out from the left side of the screen, covering maybe a third to half of the active display area. It has news and weather, and a nice welcome message. However, at an inopportune time, it can be a little obstructive. Sometimes it seems to go away on its own, but other times it seems to linger. What is it, and how can one close it?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt turns out said panel is called the Widgets Board. My understanding is that, to open it or close it, one can click bottom left of the screen, where a weather forecast appears on the ribbon. Perhaps it&#8217;s located differently on other people&#8217;s screens, but that where it is on the PCs I use.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince I learned about how to use the Widgets Board, I&#8217;ve started to look at it once and awhile: it&#8217;s nice. Most things in Windows are, when one comes to understand how to use them:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/apps\/design\/widgets\/#:~:text=An%20application%20that%20displays%20and,to%20replace%20apps%20and%20websites.\">learn.microsoft.com: Widgets overview<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Windows 11: the tutor mentions something that occasionally demands attention. The following is according to my understanding. Occasionally, when I am in an online meeting, a panel opens out from the left side of the screen, covering maybe &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-windows-11-widgets-board\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use: Windows 11: Widgets Board<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[4152,4151,4153],"class_list":["post-51740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use","tag-how-to-close-the-left-panel-in-windows-11","tag-how-to-close-the-panel-in-windows-11-that-pops-from-the-left-side","tag-what-is-the-left-panel-that-suddenly-opens-on-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51741,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51740\/revisions\/51741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}