The Lockscreen of a Windows computer is the window you see every time you boot it up, right when you’re about to log into your system. Windows screens are highly customizable. Since it’s the first thing you see when you start working on your computer, it’s important that it includes the key information you need at a glance. For many people, that’s the weather forecast for the current and upcoming days. In this article, we’ll show you how to add the weather widget to your lock screen, desktop and taskbar in Windows 11/10.
How to add a Weather widget to the Lock screen in Windows
The process to do so is unsurprisingly easy. All you have to do is make a change in your Windows settings and you’re good to go. Here’s what that change is:
- Open the Windows Settings by pressing the Windows and ‘I’ keys together
- From the options available on the main window, go to Personalization
- Here, click on Lock Screen from the left-side options pane
- Here, you see an option to Add widgets to your lock screen. This typically includes the date and time, next to which is a ‘+’ sign
- Click on that and from the list, select ‘Weather’
- If you want to undo this change, click on it again and this time select ‘None’
How to add Weather to desktop in Windows 11/10
The process isn’t as easy to replicate with your desktop as it is with the Lock screen. In fact, Microsoft doesn’t provide an option for users to add a weather widget to their desktop screen using a built-in utility. Thus, we have to rely on third-party apps for the same. The most reliable and efficient option is a package called Widget Launcher. It consists of not just weather but several more widgets like date & time, currency conversion, etc.
Setting up the app is pretty easy and takes just a couple of minutes. Here’s what you need to do:
- Download the Widget Launcher app from the Microsoft Store.
- Launch the app once it’s been downloaded.
- There, you’ll see all the widgets the package has to offer.
- Last on the list will be one named ‘Weather’.
- Click to configure it.
Type out your location, or the location whose weather you want to keep track of, and enter it.
You’ll find a widget like the one below on your desktop. You can customize this widget based on your preferences, such as its colors and how transparent you want it to be.
You can also drag to increase or decrease its size based on your choice and how many apps you have on your desktop, since a big widget may make it look crowded. To remove it, open the Widget Launcher and disable it.
How to add a Weather widget to the Taskbar in Windows 11/10
This isn’t something a user of the latest Windows version would be asking, since this has been taken care of by Microsoft with the News and Interests feature. This utility sits on a user’s taskbar, displaying the weather, and when you hover over it you see several cards, some with the news you want to read and things that are of interest to you.
So, the best way to get the weather feature on your taskbar without relying on a third-party utility is to update your PC to the latest Windows version and use the News and Interests feature.
We hope that this post was helpful and that you are now able to display the weather widget wherever you want on your PC.
