Xbox Gamebar

It is annoying, it takes over controller keybinds for starting random recordings, and it forces itself over top of Steam Overlay. Not to mention there are so many better ways to do everything Gamebar does, Medal or Shadow play for recording, Steam Overlay for basically everything else. So that begs the question, how do you remove it?

PowerShell

First you are going to need an elevated window of PowerShell, Command Prompt, or Terminal. Simply choose your command shell of preference and right click and select run as administrator¹.

After you have your PowerShell window, copy and paste this command in and run it².

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

After it has finished, you have uninstalled Xbox Gamebar!

Now, if you start any game, the "GameDVR" program still tries to run and fails to find Xbox Gamebar. This is becasue we just removed it in the last step. To fix this you simply need to edit some entries in your systems Registry. Now don't worry, we won't need the registery editor for this, I have another command you can run in the same elevated PowerShell Window².

reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionGameDVR /f /t REG_DWORD /v "AppCaptureEnabled" /d 0
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USERSystemGameConfigStore /f /t REG_DWORD /v "GameDVR_Enabled" /d 0

And after all that you should have fully removed Xbox Gamebar and all naggy popups from your system, if you have any issues feel free to ask in my Discord.

¹ If you have any App Locker policies set up it may block you from running PowerShell with elevated privileges, if you run into issues else you disable your App Locker policies until after you have run the commands, or contact your system administrator for help.

² Never run any code on your system until you independently verify what it does. Running code in an elevated PowerShell instance can expose you to viruses and scams. Always ensure what you are running is safe before doing it

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