When you swipe from the right edge of your screen, it opens the Notification Center. If you do the same from the left side, it opens Windows Widgets. Although this feature is useful in some situations, it can get in the way of daily operations and become annoying. If you end up swiping accidentally and it’s becoming a nuisance, below, we’ll show you how to easily disable it. On the other hand, if you want to enable screen edge swipe to quickly access specific system UI elements with a simple swipe, you can use the steps below also to enable it.
How to turn on or off screen edge swipe in Windows 11
As mentioned above, the Windows edge swipe feature lets you swipe in from a screen edge to bring up different system UI elements. Below is how to quickly enable or disable it in Windows 11 In Windows 11, open Local Group Policy Editor by clicking on the Start menu and searching for Edit group policy as highlighted below. Under Best match, select Edit group policy to launch Local Group Policy Editor. In the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor, expand the tree: In the Edge UI details pane on the right, locally and double-click the setting Allow edge swipe. In the Allow edge swipe setting window, set the option to Enabled. Select OK. Close Local Group Policy Editor. If Allow edge swipe is enabled and you want to disable it via the Local Group Policy Editor, then go to the policy path below: Locate and double click on Allow edge swipe settings, then set the option to Not configured. You can accomplish the same via the Windows registry. To do that, follow the steps below: On your keyboard, press the Windows key + R to launch Run. In the Run box, enter regedit and press Enter. When the Windows registry opens, navigate to the following key location: Set the value of the AllowEdgeSwipe DWORD to 0 to disable screen edge swipes. After that, restart Windows Explorer, or restart your PC for the changes to take effect. That should do it! Conclusion: This post showed you how to turn on or off-screen edge swipe in Windows 11. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
