Lock screen has wrong city weather report.

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I allowed my laptop to update to Win 11 several months ago. No real problems so far. (Although, I’ve had two BSOD’s.) Something showed up a few weeks ago. On the lock screen, before I log in, at the bottom center, is a mini weather report. Trouble is, it’s for Washington D.C. I live in Florida. I can’t find anywhere in settings to change the city or my location that’s associated with the lockscreen. (Or “log-on” screen.)

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks;

Artie

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Click the Weather icon on the Taskbar while logged on to open the News and Interest utility.
Click the three dot icon on the Weather section.
Select Edit location and unit

You can also turn this function totally off by right clicking the Taskbar, select News and interest > Turn off.

I know this works for Windows 10, but not absolutely sure it works for Windows 11.

HTH, Dana:))

HTH, Dana:))

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Great! Works! Thank you 😉

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Nope. No “News and Interest” icon on Win 11. At least, not on MY Win 11.

One more odd thing: If I log on, and click on “widgets”, I get a pop-up with a small calendar and the weather, and it correctly shows my location. Odd that it knows where I am after logon, but not before.

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Change the default location in the Weather app on the Start menu at Settings, General, Options, Launch Location.

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Where are you seeing “General” at? I don’t have that anywhere in “settings.”

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In the Weather app, access the settings by clicking the gear icon at the bottom of the navigation pane. The first tab in settings is General. Scroll down to set the launch location.

--Joe

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Thanks Joe super easy.

For me iut was the “Let APPS access yoour location” that was completely turned of.
Turned on – and turned of for Weather now my location shows on the lockscreen with local weather 🙂

Thank you to everyone

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I just don’t seem to have the same options as you. Here’s a screenshot of when I go to “Apps”, and scroll down to “weather”.

 

 

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Open the weather app. Then settings in the open app.

--Joe

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And here’s what I get when I select “Advanced Options.”

 

 

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I just noticed something . . . I’ve never had this turned on, on Win 10 before. I just enabled it and it does the same thing. Washington DC at the lock screen. Jacksonville when logged on.

I think I’ll just turn it off. It’s not like a doddle at the lock screen.

But thanks to everyone for the help so far. I appreciate it.

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It’s not clear to me what you just turned off.

But to correct the location; open the Weather app from the Start menu, then look for Settings.

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that would be start menu / Apps and Features
scroll down to weather and click on vertical 3 dots.
Click on Advanced options.
My location switch is off and greyed out probably because I do not have location turned on.

So , yeah, if you turn that off, I bet it all disappears.

location:
in Start Menu / Settings / “find a setting” (little search window at top) type “location” click location, turn location on, down page “Set default location”.

After I did this I went back to the weather app and location was now solid black so I turned it on.

I enabled it on the lock screen and got, you guessed it, Wash DC. I will now try to shoot that prob. (this is all new to me.)

I clicked on start menu/search and typed weather and got one choice, weather app, so clicked on that – after 5-10 sec I got my local weather. So I rebooted but this time on the lock screen I got -nothing-. Stay tuned.

Well, after trying a bunch of settings, I could not get it to display the default location, or anything, on the lock screen. Guess it only works for the default…

hth

running win 11 21H2 current.

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I just posted a question re this to MS Community. I’ll let you know if I get an answer.

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Well, much more quickly than I expected, but, basically, forget it. Be well.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_11-other_settings/win-11-21h2-weather-doesnt-show-on-lock-screen/31c3b26f-630e-40fa-a254-b3001922602c

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Thanks krism. I solved the problem by turning it off. That seems to solve most Windows problems.  🙂

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LOL! Right! 🙂

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krism. Thanks again for all the trouble you went to. I really appreciate it.

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I did go to the feedback hub in win 11 and filed a report. I will let you know if anything comes of it. Apparently it worked fine a month or 2 ago and then stopped after an update.(Jan 18)

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Artie

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I had the sames issue. Weather kept coming up on my lock screen but I prefer it not to. Many have answered as if the issue was on the weather app from the task bar but it is not. Go into Settings,  then Personalization screen and then choose Lock Screen, and finally Lock Screen Status uncheck choose none. That takes care of it if you don’t want to see it at all.

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Thank you, thank you!   This worked!  I’ve been trying to fix this for months!

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That worked!  Thank you!

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Despite my main weather app being set to Celsius and being able to access my UK location, my lock screen weather app widget insists of showing the temperature in Fahrenheit, and there is nowhere you can change it.

So. Goodbye lock screen weather app. Your brief existence was as much use as a chocolate teapot.

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FYI,

I had this same behavior on my PC which is managed by employer and not all settings are available. However, I did notice that when I clicked on link in the weather notification icon on the lock screen (to view the full weather forecast) that, after logging in, took me to a Microsoft Start page with additional feed choices and customization settings. It appears that the notifications on the lock screen are managed separately by settings the user selects on various msn.com sites. I was able to personalize weather settings such as location and temperature units on the msn site that then updated the lock screen. These are different settings than those managed in the task bar weather. Crazy.

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I use a VPN and, increasingly, every program and website wants to use my IP address the VPN is throwing at them, and treat that as my location.

On websites I physically correct the location by zip code (without changing my VPN provided IP address). Some websites fight you tooth-and-nail when you make the corrections. Some will take the correction, but then put you thru it again when you click thru the sites to go to different pages.

I’ve also been noticing that Microsoft Edge (which I don’t use as my browser) updates itself on a daily basis, whether it actually performs an update or not. My theory is that it does this just to reset your preferences to what it wants. Every. Single. Day.

Since so many of these annoyances – like the Weather pop-up – seem to be tied into Edge, there very hard to avoid. I’ve “disabled” many things, but they keep coming back.

Thankfully, Glary Utilities, Revo Uninstaller Pro, Bitdefender Total Security and Bitdefender VPN Premium give me much needed insight into what Windows is doing/forcing upon my system. And, for the most part, the ability to delete/fix things.

HOWEVER, I really resent needing to spend the first 20-30 minutes after booting up to clean everything up 🙁 BUT, the consequences of not doing so are worth my doing so. FWIW, I just love the updating MS is doing when you think the laptop is off – even when you have updates paused!

Bottom line: MS doesn’t speak or comprehend English nor the meaning of words 🙁 I was sort of a Windows 7 savant, having mastered all our beloved work-a-rounds. BUT, Windows 10 just has too many gotchas with new ones being rotated in-and-out on an almost daily basis.

No way in Hell I’m moving to Windoze 11!

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