How to uninstall xbox game bar

How to uninstall Xbox Game Bar on Windows PC

If the Xbox Game Bar is not working or opening on your Windows 11 or Windows 10, or for some PC users that don’t use the app and reports that the app takes up too much storage space; can uninstall and reinstall the Windows Store app from their device. In this post, we will show you how to uninstall Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11/10.

How to uninstall Xbox Game Bar

Beginning from Windows Build 10.0.18362 and later, the uninstall button is greyed out for the Xbox Game Bar in Settings app as you can see from the lead-in image above. Although you can enable or disable Game DVR or Game Bar in Windows 11/10 and reassign the Windows key + G keyboard shortcut, PC users that want to completely uninstall Xbox Game Bar can do so in either of the following ways described below.

1] Uninstall Xbox Game Bar using Uninstaller Software

An uninstaller (the opposite of an installer), is a software designed to remove other software or parts of it from your Windows 11/10 computer.

This option requires you to use a third-party software uninstaller to remove Xbox Game Bar from your device.

2] Uninstall Xbox Game Bar using DISM or PowerShell command

This option requires you use DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) tool from an elevated (admin) PowerShell prompt to uninstall Xbox Game Bar on your Windows 11/10 device. Before you begin, create a system restore point first.

Do the following:

DISM command

PowerShell command

If you want to remove Xbox packages for other users, run the following command:

Although not applicable in this case scenario, it’s imperative to point out that you can uninstall programs via Registry Editor, uninstall programs not listed in Control Panel and can also use WMIC a built-in utility to help you successfully remove an installed program in Windows 11/10. That said, using any of the 2 methods described above, PC users can easily and successfully uninstall Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11/10 device. If at any time the app is needed, Xbox Game Bar can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

How do I remove the Xbox Game Bar from Windows 10?

How do I remove the Xbox Game Bar from Windows 11?

Does Xbox Game Bar lower FPS?

Essentially, the Xbox Game Bar enables PC users/gamers to broadcast gameplay, quickly open the Xbox app, record brief clips and capture gaming snapshots. But, if you’re experiencing Game Stuttering with FPS drops, it could also be due to the enhanced Game bar.

What does Xbox Game Mode do?

Among other things, the Game Mode and the Xbox Game Bar on your Windows 11/10 system allows you to record your gameplay, access and control things like the sound volume, chat with your friends, monitor your computer’s performance, or play music from Spotify.

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How to Uninstall the Xbox Game Bar in Windows 10

Published by Timothy Tibbetts on 02/05/2020

The Game bar in Windows 10 is a gaming overlay that many of us don’t use. In this guide, we show you how to remove the Xbox Game bar (previously known as Game Bar) from Windows 10 because the Xbox Game bar can no longer be officially uninstalled.

We’ve tried apps, and we’ve tried PowerShell, and the app wins every time. Trust us and use O&O App Buster.

1: Uninstall With O&O AppBuster

Your best bet is the freeware O&O AppBuster. O&O AppBuster has the advantage of letting you pick from different apps you want to remove and the ability to restore them should you change your mind later.

Start O&O App Buster, click on Xbox Game bar, click Remove in the top right corner, and reboot.

If you don’t use Xbox at all, we’d remove everything including:

Xbox Console Companion
Xbox TCUI
Xbox Identity Provider
Xbox Game Speech Window
Xbox Game Bar Plugin

So, you want to try the hard way? We feel you. The methods have changed over the years, and the Xbox Game Bar might return after a feature update, so we strongly recommend you use O&O App Buster.

Here are the two different ways to get rid of the Xbox Game Bar.

2: Uninstall Xbox Live

You can search for Xbox Live, right-click and uninstall or remove from Settings > Apps & Features.

We can also use PowerShell:

Open PowerShell as admin and type in Get-AppxPackage *xbox* | Remove-AppxPackage. You might see some text flash briefly, but otherwise, this process only takes seconds to complete and almost always returns errors, even though it worked.

*xbox* removes everything Xbox, so if you want to remove the Game Bar try *xboxapp*

Windows 10: How to Uninstall the Xbox Game Bar Completely

We show you how to disable/remove Xbox Game Bar in Windows 10 despite a greyed out uninstall button in the latest OS versions.

The Xbox Game Bar, successor to Game DVR, was first introduced to Windows 10 in 2016. Until recently, it hasn’t been particularly useful to gamers, but in the past year or two, it has netted Spotify integration, performance stats, a volume mixer, and third-party offerings. Unfortunately, though, these additions have come with a cost: Microsoft has now disabled the option to remove Xbox Game Bar via the programs menu ind Windows 10 settings.

This is a natural annoyance for those who never use Xbox Game Bar, keep hitting the shortcut by accident, or have seen performance issues and other bugs in games. If you have an overlay solution you use already, such as MSI afterburner, Steam, or UPlay, it can also cause problems.

Today we’re going to show you how to remove the Xbox Game Bar in even the latest builds despite Microsoft’s best efforts. To achieve this, we’ll be using going to be using PowerShell.

How to Remove Xbox Game Bar from Windows 10 with PowerShell

There are a few ways to uninstall the Xbox Game Bar, and all of them are very quick.

Press “Windows + X” to open the Start context menu and click “Windows PowerShell (Admin)”.

First, check the Xbox packages that are currently installed on your system by typing dism /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages | Select-String PackageName | Select-String xbox and pressing “Enter”. It will turn something similar to the image below, which will let you target individual package names if you wish.

You have three options to remove the Xbox Game Bar for Windows and its associated apps/services. Bear in mind that these steps may remove the Xbox community app if you rely on it:

Make sure the packages have been removed by running the command from the start again:

dism /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages | Select-String PackageName | Select-String xbox

If there are no results, it means the packages are gone.

How to Re-install the Xbox Game Bar After a PowerShell Removal

If you removed the Xbox game bar but now want its functionality, you can restore it quickly via the Microsoft Store.

Press the “Windows” key and type “Microsoft Store”, then click the top result.

In the search bar the top-right of your screen, type “Xbox Game Bar” and press “Enter”. Click the result called “Xbox Game Bar”.

It may take a little while to download and install. If your Xbox app was removed in the process you can also install that using the same method.

joshschmelzle / remove-gamebar-powershell-win10.md

You’ve probably stumbled upon this researching how to remove the Xbox Game Bar. This gist includes a few different methods you can try. Please note that some of these first options are probably not be available unless you are running an older version of Windows 10.

Uninstalling/Removing the Game Bar (old Windows 10 build GUI options)

(this is no longer an option on any recent Windows 10 build)

Windows Build 19H1 (uninstall moved into Settings)

You might not have an Uninstall option in the right-click context menu. Try drilling into Settings and looking there.

Windows Build 19H1/19H2 (uninstall button is now grayed out)

On my machine running Windows Build 10.0.18362 the uninstall button is grayed out. The button I’m referring to is here: Xbox Game Bar > Right Click > App Settings > Uninstall.

Game Bar Settings

Depending on why you’re trying to remove the Game bar, you might also try changing the Game bar settings.

For the option that says Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcasting using Game Bar move the slider to the Off position. This should stop the default Win+G shortcut from opening the Game bar.

Removing Microsoft.Xbox* AppXPackage using PowerShell and DISM (short version)

Can’t find a way to uninstall the Game Bar using the GUI? The DISM tool and PowerShell might do the trick.

DISM is a Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool. You can use DISM from an elevated (admin) PowerShell prompt.

1. Open Windows PowerShell as an administrator (Windows Key > Start typing «PowerShell» > CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER)

2. First run dism /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages | Select-String PackageName | Select-String xbox to see what xbox packages are actually on your system.

You can try to run the following command which will get the AppXPackages matching on xbox and attempt to remove them. There are several commands stringed together (thanks @bashenk for your help on this).

You can try this through DISM, or PowerShell. Either one should do the trick, pick one.

3a. DISM version:

3b. PowerShell cmdlet version:

You may need to reboot after.

Struggling removing certain Xbox packages like the XboxGamingOverlay?

@Svenster64 commented that they had issues on build 1909 removing the XboxGamingOverlay. Here is the PowerShell command that helped them:

Removing Microsoft.Xbox* AppXPackage using PowerShell and DISM (long and manual version)

This section expands on the short versions. It goes through separate commands instead of stringing commands together. Read this if you’re interested in what all the commands do.

Step 1. Remove AppxPackages from current user.

Open PowerShell as your current user (not as an administrator).

Get list of xbox AppxPackages using Get-AppxPackage :

Step 2. Build your remove script using package names discovered in Step 1.

Which might look something like this:

You may notice one or more attempts to remove a package failed. We can clean that up using PowerShell as an administrator.

Step 3. Check AppxPackage list again

Step 4. Launch PowerShell as an administrator

Now that we have an elevated command prompt. Let’s look at the AppxPackage list again. We may see a few more:

Let’s remove them:

We see one failed. Let’s try to use DISM to remove them.

Step 5: Get a list of DISM packages that match on xbox

Search provisioned packages, you might see more packages than what you found via the Remove-AppxPackage cmdlet.

Step 6: Remove the DISM packages that match on xbox

Build your script based on output found in step 5.

Run DISM as an administrator:

Run AppXPackage as a normal user:

Run AppXPackage as an elevated user:

In this example, I had difficulty removing the XboxGameCallableUI package.

Did something different to remove the Game bar? Please comment and let us know (except via apps like CCleaner).

I’ll try to keep this gist updated to help other folks stumbling onto this gist.

joshschmelzle commented Jan 24, 2020

@Darr247 thanks for the note. i removed App Buster from the list.

doug-scott commented Jan 26, 2020

pokulo commented Feb 10, 2020

Thank you so much for this gist!!

OftKilted commented Feb 12, 2020 •

This command seems to work for pulling the XboxGamingOverlay (i.e. the Xbox Gaming Bar) from both NEW and Existing user profiles (and the command is functioning in 1909 when working with the Enterprise edition): (Side note: I already have all the Xbox Services set to a disabled start)

OftKilted commented Feb 13, 2020 •

If you’re doing an ‘upgrade in place’ scenario it will also catch it for pre-existing profiles. (Or any scenario that might have a pre-existing profile.)

MCKitch commented Apr 17, 2020 •

Confirming the above worked for me. 🙂

Darude-FOTR commented Apr 23, 2020

So if you download ccleaner protable » https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download/portable » here (this is a download link, will download if you click) you can go to tools and uninstall all the built in microsoft apps

joshschmelzle commented Apr 23, 2020

@Darude-FOTR did you try using ccleaner to remove the xbox app and were you successful? ccleaner can go amok and have side effects, so i am cautious and don’t generally recommend it.

OftKilted commented Apr 24, 2020

@Darude-FOTR @joshschmelzle And then you’re stuck dealing with whatever else CCleaner leaves behind. And it’s a typical target (apparently at least twice) for being hacked.

Removing via powershell works like a champ up through at least 1909.

MAP316 commented Jun 9, 2020

OftKilted commented Jun 11, 2020

@MAP316 That doesn’t actually remove the component, it just hides the gaming settings entry access.

Mats391 commented Jun 13, 2020

I removed it, but it still steals the Win+G keyboard input. Even assigning a new shortcut does not help, then it simply steals both. Anyone experienced that? I am using 1909 Enterprise

androidSwDev099 commented Jun 20, 2020

Worked for me on Windows 10 2004. Thank you!

haikalshiddiq commented Jul 1, 2020

The ‘short version’ worked on a desktop running Win 10 Pro version 1909, too.

rdenimal commented Sep 2, 2020

Thanks! It worked but I had to change the version of some PackageName (for example : Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay)

chappcc commented Feb 13, 2021 •

«Short Version» worked for my system with the exception that

could not be removed because it is part of Windows.

After all of this, several services still remain. I have disabled them.

ErnestoPeroPezzi commented Mar 9, 2021

Worked like a cahrm. Thank you for making this

fassetar commented May 27, 2021

Yes, thank you so much. Nothing more annoying getting notifications using the pc and someone is using the xbox.

devconfirm commented Jun 25, 2021

Thank you! On my remote work computer today this stupid widget popped up, and greyed out everything. I could not even open task manager. I had to force logoff, and log back on. Then I immediately used your Power shell method to remove it. Why would they even put this garbage in productivity workstations is beyond me (I only allow urgent and core updates, and this widget was showing install date of 6/19/2021). Windows 10 Pro 20H2 Build 19042.1052

crkinard commented Jun 29, 2021

None of the PowerShell commands work.

joshschmelzle commented Jun 29, 2021

@crkinard what version and build of Windows? did another method work for you?

mjmatthiesen commented Jun 30, 2021

Thank you. Pretty annoying I need to go through this. Why is MS wasting my resources?

Giaanc commented Aug 13, 2021

if it doesn’t work run powershell as administrator to using «Remove-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGameCallableUI_1000.15063.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy»
use Nsudo open powershell with elevated permissions of «TrustedInstaller» and you can easily remove Microsoft.XboxGameCallableUI.

mehrshaad commented Oct 17, 2021

cron410 commented Oct 25, 2021

Thanks for the example @haikalshiddiq this worked perfectly on Windows 10 21H1

nmhung1985 commented Dec 26, 2021 •

Reading LOTS of guides/tips about removing Appx/UWP/Xbox etc., I’ve finally got and understood the proper method, tried on different Windows versions and they all worked perfectly. Think I’d share here:

1. System App and essential framework, runtime components.

Now you have the idea why the package Microsoft.XboxGameCallableUI_1000.18362.449.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy got the error and shouldn’t be removed.

b) «.NET Framework», «VCLibs» etc. are essential framework, runtime components. As they’re dependencies for many other apps, you can’t remove them first and they shouldn’t be removed. However, as they’re still removable, so if you want to experiment, you can remove other apps first and you will eventually be able to remove these components.

2. Bundle

By defaults, the command Get-AppxPackage will only retrieve/list packages of Main and Framework types. But the type you should really notice is Bundle. Compare the two commands:

A Bundle type appx package usually has some properties:

a) And the MAGIC thing is: if you remove the Bundle-type package via Remove-AppxPackage, it will also remove all of its «sibling» packages (which have same App Name and PackageFamilyName) COMPLETELY AND CLEANLY, no remnants whatsoever. It will also remove the package from the Provisioned packages list (as seen via Get-AppxProvisionedPackage).

Summary

So, in summary, the proper steps are:

b) Remove HEIFImageExtension (doesn’t have Bundle package, listed on Provisioned list):

How to uninstall xbox game bar

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How to Uninstall Xbox Game Bar?

Despite having lots of benefits, there are a few annoying tooltips available. That’s the most prominent reason why gamers are looking for a way to disable or uninstall Xbox Game Bar.

by Jennifer | Jan 13, 2022

What is Xbox Game Bar?

Before knowing how to remove Xbox Game Bar, it’s compulsory to find what is Xbox Game Bar and how it works. Xbox Game Bar is a built-in tool found in Windows 10, specially designed for gamers to access the installed applications and friends’ list. Using this tool, players can easily record their gameplay, take screenshots of fantastic gaming moments to save them in the album, broadcast their gameplay online with other players at high speed without quitting the game, and Spotify Controls. Despite having lots of benefits, there are a few annoying tooltips available. That’s the most prominent reason why gamers are looking for a way to disable or uninstall Xbox Game Bar.

Microsoft has built and introduced Xbox Game Bar to its latest version of Windows for better gaming experience in mind. No doubt, the fantastic tool has made gaming experience outstanding for PC gamers by giving them access to control gaming activities while playing their favorite games. Many people are there who didn’t use this tool and want to uninstall them; therefore, we compiled a list to show you how to remove Xbox Game Bar from your PC. Let’s get started!

How to Disable the Game Bar in Windows 10?

During playing a game, you can easily let Windows appear Game Bar on your screen by merely pressing Windows Key + G. If you intend to disable this tool, then you should need to follow the given steps below:

· Click the Start Button and type Settings to open a page contain many options, including Gaming

· Go to Gaming and Select the Game Bar on the left of the screen.

· Gaming contains several features, such as Game Bar, Captures, Broadcasting, Game Mode, and Xbox Networking

· After clicking on Game Bar, you can quickly turn it off.

· Now your Game Bar is off.

What is Game DVR, and How to disable it?

As a part of the newly introduced Game Bar Tool, DVR helps you in recording videos of your gameplay in the background. Doing so will let you grab any great clip of your walkthrough quickly. Undoubtedly, leaving DVR turned on will consume your system resources. Therefore, we have a step a guide to help you how to disable DVR and enjoy the smooth gaming experience.

· Click on the Windows Logo (Start Menu) and Go to Setting

· Repeat the predecessor you did for disabling Xbox Game Bar, Choose the Gaming from the Windows Settings

· Windows will show you many options, and you should go with Game DVR available in the Left Panel

· Turn off the switch that you will find under the option “Record in the background while playing a game.”

· You’re also able to turn off the audio recording, and the option is available right below the said option.

Turning off Xbox Game Bar could be a good option for those players who intend to record their gameplays, capture the images while picking up or finding some valuable item, and going live for online streaming with friends. If you don’t have any plan to use any of these services mentioned above, then you need to turn all of these features off for a better gaming experience. Because leaving these feature turned on will continuously use your system resources and may cause lag.

Two More Methods to Disable Xbox Game Bar

Three methods are available that allow you to turn off Xbox Game Bar quickly, one already discussed above, and the remaining two processes will be unleashed below. Although, this method is a bit harder than others, which leads you to turn off Xbox Game BAR Monitoring Option. Turning off this tool could be a bit more involved as compared to others as you have to go into the Registry File. Before you start the process, try to back-up all of your Registry Files in case something goes horrible.

Disable using Registry Editor

· At the start, you have to click on “Start Menu” Windows Logo

· Type Regedit and click on it to open all registry files

· Next to that, Windows will run Registry Editor and lets you expand it.

· Expand the option HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion, and Select GameDVR following step by step.

· After approaching to the targeted location, make a right-click on the AppCaptureEnabled from the right panel

· Once selected, change the value data from 1 to 0

After learning two methods given above, you intend to learn the third method, which is a bit tricky, then go for it.

Disable Xbox Game Bar using Group Policy

· To start the method, you just required to click on Windows Logo (Start Menu) and Run the Dialogue Box

· Once opened, type MSC into the appeared text box and hit “OK” to open the Group Policy Editor

· Expand the list by following the steps: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > and Windows Game Recording and Broadcasting

· Once reached, you find two options letting you enable or disable Windows Game Broadcasting and Recording from the Windows Right Panel.

· Click on Disable and hit OK to confirm.

Several applications are also available that enable you to turn off Xbox Game Bar properly following the friendly interface. Balance your Gaming experience by turning off all those features that you don’t require at all. So choose one of three following methods to turn off or Uninstall Xbox Game Bar to fend off this tool from using your system resources.