Stop automatic large right side window from opening & demanding attention
i want to ask what this window is called, the one that keeps opening on the right side of my MBP 2020 with Catalina. What do i call this window? i will include a photo if that is allowed in this form. It's rectangular, it take up the whole vertical length from top to bottom except for the menu bar. At the top it has the words TODAY and NOTIFICATIONS, you can select one or the other. i have no use for either one. On the Today window, it shows Stocks, in a colorful array. it has a window for weather and another one for Calendar, and it takes up that whole side of the screen, and the worst thing it does is, when it opens, erratically, on average about 2 times per minute at night, but not really regular, and sometimes, it doesn't turn on at all for hours.
The bad thing for me is that when it opens, it causes my typing that i'm in the middle of to freeze. I can't type another character until i stop to see what is wrong and then to figure out how to get rid of that stupid window. (i already called Apple Support about this, she tried, we did screen sharing, tried changing some settings, but the ones she really thought would help, she found were already set the way she thought they should be set. it was never figured out what was the cause, or the name of it, or how to stop it, i have a case number but lack of confidence to try again. They'll just tell me to install the new OS. Every time i install a new OS, my life gets worse, so i'm not going to do that.)
i find on Google, there are a lot of reports of this problem so i hope by asking this large community, there might be some tip or some previous experience. I don't need that window. I don't want that window, so i just want to disable it so it won't every open again. Is there some kind of preference file in the Library somewhere that i can just throw away?
One idea i got using Google was, in Finder, you go to View/Hide Side Bar. That was hopeful, but it won't work with the window that's causing my problem. I don't think it's technically a "sidebar." i think it's technically a window. What happened when i tried to use View/Hide Sidebar is that when i opened View, Hide Sidebar and the other hide and save options are all grayed out. Also, just by selecting the view menu, that key pad contact causes the problem right side window to close. In other words, when i'm typing and suddenly stopped in my tracks by that window opening, the only way to continue typing is to tap on the screen anywhere except in that window. that makes it go away. Then i can type again. I do not want to be interrupted while i'm typing. i have thoughts i don't want to lose, i want to concentrate on what i'm writing. Is this some kind of glitch anyone has heard of? there must be some setting but not anything logical that anyone can figure out. i want to be able to set it to hide or disable the opening of the window. Or, i want to remove whatever piece of the OS is causing it to torture me.
Is there a C prompt code someone can give me that will make it go away?
Thank you for your attention. The photo is below. No idea why it came out that large, i have a 13 inch MBP
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13