Fix: Xbox Games going to Gaming Services / Microsoft Store

[@megalan6826]

I've been ready to pull my hair out over this for several days. every guide was like "just go to the store and install gaming services" BUT THE BUTTON WASN'T THERE! Finally thanks to this video I went into the Insider app and it was actually joining the beta that worked for me. the install button reappeared and now we are gaming!

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help!

[@keygan7491]

You, my friend, just got yourself a subscriber. Only guy who had the right fix after hours of trying everything else. Thank you, Mike.

[@MikeTheTech]

Thanks for the sub!

[@JoshuaGutz]

Thank you! The PowerShell commands finally worked for me! It was happening with Halo Infinite, and if anyone's curious, it does not lose any game save content.

[@justinTime077]

Well no shit. It’s not saved locally.. this isn’t 1990.

[@ghoste767]

@@justinTime077 so rude for what

[@berlin3134]

This guy is legit, I've tried fixing the gaming services bug where it wont install/download and or will always fail to download at 99% using every method online from google and other youtubers which came to no avail. This video solved my issue on the first attempt. I was unable to fix my problem for a year until I found this video. Thanks

[@Cody4062]

I do not understand anything about these powershell commands but for me it was the removal of the gamingservicesnet item path that fixed the problem. thank u very much

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad it worked!

[@Hunter_IRL]

Not all Heros wear capes. To the point and clear instructions. Writing out the Power shell commands for a copy and paste was some Giga Chad shit. Thank you!

[@imperialist4862]

It doesn‘t work for me. After i pressed enter, another ‚Psc windows system 32‘ popped up. Then I left clicked and a whole new code of red letters was created. Can anyone help.

[@joebob8291]

the other day half of my games wernt showing up on the xbox app but they were still installed on my pc but i couldnt play them. Then the games that still were there started taking me to gaming services and i have been trying for hours over the past 2 days trying to fix it. The powershell commands wont work and nothing else will either. Now all the rest of the games that were there are gone too exept for 1, idk why that 1 is still there but it doesnt matter bc it still doesnt work. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME

[@BesheniyKoluchka]

Do u have a solution?

[@evolone-ho5wm]

thanks for the great tips, what worked for me was joining the windows gaming beta from the insider app, after joining it let me update gaming services and play whatever game I wanted without interruptions

[@angelo423]

If anyone wonders if this still works in 2023 it definetely does! I've been driving myself crazy for the last 2 hours trying to solve this with no success but after following the commands everything seems to be working again, I'm saving this in case it happens again. Thank you for taking your time to make this video!

[@Deviance1hit]

Thank you so much! Just had the issue with "There was a problem loading installation locations. Try Again." This fixed it!

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@chronicmidnightrebels2623]

I got a "cannot find path" error when running the command:" Remove-Item -Path "HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServices" -recurse " along with the next one after that. How do I fix this?

[@finecoalminer1906]

same here!

[@SpeakerGeek77]

@@finecoalminer1906 Same

[@brandonpullin7032]

Me too

[@charles7003]

If anyone else gets this error just continue into the next step of going to the store and hitting “get” on gaming services. Regardless of the error it still worked for me

[@charles7003]

@Beau it literally does…

[@Digul_V]

Thank you very much. I couldn't solve the problem for half a day.I did all the points from your video, no longer hoping for success. But one of them worked! The games are working again!

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear! Thanks for the comment and update. :)

[@BigBoAnimates]

thank you so much! I found out that my friend disabled my gaming services and wasnt sure how to turn it back on, so i followed ur steps and u saved my microsoft store!

[@edibumbaru]

Thanks! You are a genius! Worked with powershell, but mine seems that it wasn’t installed. So i installed with that command in powershell and it works now! I can play again FH5 :))) thanks mate!

[@krunchosg5073]

Great work! thanks to google, i managed to find your video and solved this pesky issue that many MS forums could not.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad it helped!

[@Khan-us8gn]

Thanks! I am finally able to play oblivion. What a gem, you earned yourself a like

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help! Thanks for the like. :)

[@Acidioflux]

Hey Mike! I believe i was one of your students at MCOE and seeing this video brought back all the memories of game salad and UE lol I happened to run into this problem today and was very glad to have your video help out! Hope you are doing well and thanks for the fix!

[@MikeTheTech]

Hey! Nice hearing from a former student! Hope you're doing well and I'm glad the video helped you out!

[@foxeditz.aep1]

​@@MikeTheTechIt says Installing gaming services.This may take a few minutes. ITS BEEN 1 AND A HALF DAYS

[@code_14z]

@@foxeditz.aep1 did u find a fix? because I'm experiencing the same issue right now.

[@foxeditz.aep1]

@@code_14z sorry bro I guess the money is gone to waste 😔

[@imperialist4862]

It doesn‘t work for me. After i pressed enter, another ‚Psc windows system 32‘ popped up. Then I left clicked and a whole new code of red letters was created. Can anyone help.

[@MemeTalent]

thanks bro, idk why microsoft sucks so much when it comes to this kinda stuff, and the fact that its such a easy fix also

[@ienorex]

BROTHER! IT WORKED! I just did the 2:15 part After typing in those and rebooting my device, error code shows up and it was 0x87e00196, basically the error means to re-install the Gaming service, it gave me a way again to type in powershell this code, Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers After that I clicked on a game I want to install, it prompted again to download gaming services, I clicked download, NOW IT WORKS! IT downloaded and my game is installing It even found my previously downloaded games too, unlike before it was just hidden or not appearing from the application. Again thanks Mike! PS: Saw ur pewdiepie reference anyways LEGIT Vid fix Thanks! WORKED! GGWP!

[@MikeTheTech]

Thank you so much for the comment and update! It’s very much appreciated. I’m glad the video helped you out and that someone gets my random references. 😅 Comments like this make my day for real.

[@SlattLyfe]

hey when i check services (after doing the scripts ) the gaming services are not there but when I go on microsoft store to download it its no download button i think its still downloaded not sure.can you please help me out

[@tr3franky469]

same

[@natividadmendez3041]

your a life saver !!!!!! It actually worked i've liget been so mad for the past week

[@Itz_Brayly]

I did power commands and now my store wont even lauch... Ive tried the command to open it but it says it failed, went to settings and did all the jazz there but nothin

[@MunchkinWheels]

Got it! Thank you so much, I wasted too much time before this worked. Appriciate it tons!

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@kentsel]

restarting the gaming services worked for me verywell thank you so much !

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad it helped!

[@LucaOlivaGuitar]

I get error code 0x80070002 every time i try to install gaming services and no fixes can work for me

[@codyromrell6897]

Powershell worked like a charm! thanks a ton mate.

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@yargan493]

thank you so dam much ...i have been going on and on and on about so many videos about this particular issue and i am finnaly able to install the games and play with my friends ....!!!!! thank you very dam much !!! T_T , months of this stupid suffering problem resolve

[@MikeTheTech]

Very happy to hear that!

[@RickEikelenberg]

I had this issue once and couldn't fix it with these method's. Have installed Windows 11 and 2 days later problem happened again. I thought what did I change? Wait! in the Xbox Game app under general I unchecked the start app on boot box. That's exactly what I did also when the problem occured the first time. I checked it again and also checked start app in the background. Rebooted my PC. Now Xbox App is working again without starting Microsoft services in the Microsoft store when starting a game.

[@Dooky1973]

Thanks for fixes. The commands in the comments fixed it for me and i also turned off the insider gaming program to go back to original version. Nice one. Thanks ;o) FYI - This only happened after installing Win 10 Feature Update 21H2

[@MikeTheTech]

Good to hear! Thanks for the heads up on the update, too!

[@157jeffrey157]

Thanks friend, just installing the insider hub already worked because he sent me to microsoft store and let me install what was missing which was the xbox identifier Provider. I was able to log in normally from there on the xbox app

[@RLOWG]

I started gaming service error code 1060 . Why ?

[@Swaps2]

I found a fix for people who did all these steps and still get brought back to gaming services. Close the xbox app and open up services and stop both gaming services and open back up the xbox app then play the game that wasn't working and if you see it opens and no content is installed then IT WORKED, don't close the game and open back up services and restart both gaming services and it will automatically restart your game. For someone who gets 3mbps download, downloading a game like halo infinite takes a week and this bug has happened to me at least 3 times now (I have lost all sanity)

[@Paperflower.]

You're a life saver honestly! May you always find the colder side of your pillow

[@Paperflower.]

For the people who still can't open the game, try the above method on a different game first (one that's working perfectly fine) then after, start up the game that isn't working.

[@agentsmidt3209]

THANK YOU! You are a lifesaver, the powershell commands helped

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@hectorgomez401]

I tried everything and I'm still having problem when trying to play Dragon Quest XI

[@anemoiae]

it keeps on saying "item not found" and this whole command line in red highlight when i put in the second line of code, and when i press enter it just opens a new line

[@shahmirwaseem1107]

Bro thank you I have been trying for months and I almost gave up Thank you so much

[@blacklord1515]

didnt help still the same error in Services it now says Error 1058: The specified service cannot be started. It is disabled or not connected to enabled devices

[@MikeTheTech]

You can turn it on in Services.msc

[@blacklord1515]

@@MikeTheTech works now thank you

[@charles7003]

When I tried to do the power shell commands I got an error message that said cannot find path, but it still ended up working and I can now play back 4 blood again.

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@GH0STZzZ23]

My gaming services is already downloaded but it says I need to download it. It also won't let me change the download location or enable downloads/updates during gameplay

[@XD123daniel]

have done all of these multiple times. service is installed. pc says it's just been modifed but the store says it haven't been modified the past month. don't get a update button anymore and service won't even run

[@schztinky2820]

i dunno why but it simply doesnt work. i blame the possibility im using a dev channel build of windows 11

[@bladeataplas9414]

bro my gaming services are disable. what can I do to make it work?

[@angelokuo]

Thank you so much. I have found many ways on the Internet, this is the only one that works. My deepest thanks.

[@whitewingcat]

I tried to follow through the guide and reinstalled Gaming Services, but for some reason it didn't showed up on my Service system. its like Gaming services didn't run at all. I need some help please >.

[@johndoyle6227]

Absolute legend mate powershell method work ❤️

[@MikeTheTech]

Nice! Thanks for the comment.

[@chaotictoast8199]

Oh my god thanks so much man. Only needed the first code for me but this was so frustrating. Still works in 2022 july nice

[@MH-fq1dm]

Not for me

[@shivanshchauhan72]

i did put the commands on windows powershell by running it as administrator, but when i select on download "game services" on microsoft store it says "an error has been occured and the error code i get is 0x80070490. please help if you can... and my xbox is not even opening at the first place showing the same error

[@yoda2853]

thank you so much this really helped me bro i thought i was never going to play mc again tysm

[@musayyabali6398]

I tried all these fixes but unfortunately it still doesn't work for me..

[@4azzy]

I am still getting this issue... it attempts to install but then says retry and I get an error saying; Code: 0x80070057 what do I?

[@NathanCampbell_0x01]

Awesome, powershell commands worked for me, many thanks!

[@bradeb45]

Thank ya Jesus. Leaving the Beta (which I didn't realize I'd joined) did it for me.

[@PanDaHunter001]

Hi. Idk if u can help me but only 1 of two gaming services is running. When i try to start the other one it says its not a installed services? You have any ideas? Thanks

[@Narsuaq]

This didn't work. I just get red text saying it can't find anything to delete.

[@MikeTheTech]

There are multiple steps. If the uninstall script doesn’t find anything, it means it’s already uninstalled. So you go to the next step and install it.

[@Narsuaq]

@@MikeTheTech Thanks for your reply. It's so broken. I've decided xboxapp isn't worth the stress I'm having with it (so many things not working). I uninstalled it for now to save my sanity. The only thing I think will fix it is reinstalling Windows and I don't intend to do that right now. Thanks anyway.

[@Feotank]

Thanks mike literally wasn't making any progress for over 2 hours looking around just to see why this shit doesn't work.

[@williancastro8125]

Now the app simply stays at the black screen w/ logo and doesn't launch.

[@BUDA20]

if the download never ends, you can cancel it in the three dots menu ··· in the downloads list, then try again

[@barisfix3080]

At first step when I right click on gaming servies I get an error that says error 87 parameter incorrect

[@animeangelischangli]

Help at the start already struggling since i dont have gaming service installed when i bought my TUFF gaming laptop How do i fix this.

[@MikeTheTech]

Continue watching. It shows all the steps to install.

[@brianmartinez2425]

i cant seem to restart my second gaming services app and also my powershell commands links are not working for it! please help

[@AlexJenkins]

I can't even start my gaming services. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified. So glad my system picked now to have these issues.

[@linushahner8266]

I don't want to start gaming service at services there is always this error message: The system cannot find the specified path. what can I do ?

[@han-oh8pi]

thank you so much!!! joining the beta solved my problem :))

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help!

[@saschathetrashpanda]

I every time I play a pc game it doesn’t show on my Xbox account it only showed that I am online on my game bar will this fix it?

[@berniegarrett3635]

Sadly did not work on Win11 for MSFS. Had tried all with reboots inbetween.Also tried reinstalling XBox, Gaming Services, and MS Storte.Seems a tricky issue as MS Support don't have other suggestions. Ugh...

[@externalanimations2734]

do have a way to fix gaming services not installing at all or just lasting forever?

[@lolo_xdfritz970]

Thank you so much. With Powershell its finally works.

[@MikeTheTech]

You're welcome!

[@jokerbatman101]

you got my SUB thanks you my MAN LOVE YOU BIG LOVE TO THIS GUY!!!!

[@MikeTheTech]

Thanks for the sub! Much appreciated!

[@jvzzyc_]

Thank you ever so kindly ;^; was borderline in tears thinking I broke something

[@Pacify]

One of my gaming services seems to completely just not exist and I'm pretty sure it got corrupted somehow... in services when I try to run it it just says it doesn't exist. I've tried reinstalling it using PowerShell and nothing has worked this happened to me yesterday after running Forza Horizon 5 then restarting my pc after I quit the game properly I didn't do anything out of the normal. When I restarted it started to send me to the Gaming Services thing now I can't play anything from the xbox/ms store games its awesome I wish I could find something that would fix this......

[@dooraexploore9388]

1:16 it wasnt running to begin with and when I clicked start "Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified" I have never been in such enraged rut that not even reddit could fix my problems.

[@mr.yellow69]

Thank you, this was very helpful. My sister and I were trying to play some Minecraft when I kept getting redirected to the app. Thank you.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help!

[@Carifyx]

Didn’t work. Instal button on gaming services is grayed out. So can’t click it. Restarted numerous times

[@MikeTheTech]

That’s why this video shows like 5 ways to fix it. Did you only try the first one?

[@jamitoles]

I typed in all the power shell commands, restarted my PC now gaming services is completely removed from my PC. But the install button for gaming services is not there. So it's not on my PC anymore and I cannot install it

[@MikeTheTech]

The second power shell command installs it.. you don’t just do them all at once.

[@ClumsyCars]

@@MikeTheTech not if your pc thinks gaming services is installed for some reason

[@MqxOut]

None worked. I went to copy and paste the second and third after the first and it prompted me with a error code. pls help

[@CptMalding]

So I tried restarting the gaming services, however both of them arent running like in the video. If i try to start the one that isnt running it give me a 1060 error code. Anyone else have this issue before? Now downloading the insider hub, but idk if it will work or not. I have done all of the powershell commands, made sure every drivers were up to date as well as my os.

[@jangsjudgement4167]

Thanks for this! Fixed any problems I was having on Windows 11.

[@blackroc01]

In services 1 of my gaming services says: Error 31: a device attached to the system is not functioning......any idea if this is a problem ?

[@DelToasterGaming]

gaming services now just doesnt install at all, it just keeps saying retry. And earlier during the Restart Gaming Services, part i accidentality clicked stop on the second one, and it never fully stopper, instead it just says stopping

[@MikeTheTech]

That’s why you need to restart your PC when prompted or after the steps.

[@aiden_236]

Worked, thanks! And that's weird idk why but when I install gaming services by my own the Store stops working completly, always have to uninstall the service with the command in powershell and immediately starts working again.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad it worked for you! Definitely some weird stuff going on with the gaming service.

[@godzillalegendary6820]

the thing is that whenever i try to launch any game it wont launch. I tried all the steps but it still didn't work can somebody help me please?

[@nifailghaisanazwan9368]

when i do 2nd and 3th command this error show up : Remove-Item: Cannot find path 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServicesNet' because it does not exist" how should i fix it??

[@Yamal6261]

ye i got that too but on the first code

[@MikeTheTech]

Continue on to the next code. One removes. One adds it. If the fix isn’t necessary, the code won’t work/run. So you just continue through the steps until one of them (hopefully) does.

[@Yamal6261]

@@MikeTheTech all of them dont work on the last code it brings me to microsoft store with gaming services on it

[@jasonjennings8465]

Well, the 3rd option kind of worked... I could finally actually choose my second drive to install the game to. Except it would get an error and not download because there was no gamingservices in the registry....

[@burkayelbir]

Idk why i cant solve this problem, i tried the ways in your video and many others. Just trying to start forza horizon 5, even deleted everything and the game and redownload it, still same

[@prizmatik-yt]

Great vid my dude! Thank you. I will mention this though. Has anyone noticed that the gaming services have a 1.4/5 star rating? 😂😂

[@Shadow-sf6xy]

thx you for the video i had this probleme with minecraft and i installed xbox store then reinstalled minecraft from there and it worked

[@SZ-MS]

Thank youu so much it still works in 2024

[@HevonCZR]

I still cant fix this. I've tried all the commands, reinstalled the MS, Xbox app and the god damn Gaming Services, I simply cant update the thing so I cant play use Game Pass properly.

[@kiwijordy]

Legend, fixed it for me, Thumbs up.

[@fly1328]

Guys I had the same problem I couldn’t open Minecraft launcher I couldn’t get into my games I couldn’t install Minecraft so what I did was went to windows settings clicked installed apps, searched for gaming services and went to background permissions and click the 2nd option which is “ power optimized (recommended)” and I got everything back I got to install Minecraft again and I can finally play again Hope this helps to some of you all

[@Hugoo1980]

Thanks a lot! This method really worked, finally!

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@CynicVash]

nope nothing worked, when i first installed the gaming services app, nothing prompt up to click yes. and it wont allow me to uninstall it to try it again.

[@MikeTheTech]

Admin account?

[@darth3911]

@@MikeTheTechSame here and my account is an admin. Literally nothings worked for me and I can’t download any apps because of it.

[@roykale9141]

thank you! powershell worked for me (how does Microsoft screw things up so bad)

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear it worked for ya!

[@mantraa8706]

i make powershell commands and xbox dont starting its stopping in black screen :( any help?

[@williancastro8125]

same here, did you fix it?

[@Alex_Forsh]

When I click enter it just makes a new line

[@Pyrokar525]

Hi i'm lost. I've been trying to use command in powershell Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers but all i get is error in red. I can send screenshot, even official microsoft support couldn't help me...

[@joemama7091]

i cant still open the fh5 i tried eveything you said idk what to do

[@charliehyde1843]

Hey Mike - I've seen a million tutorials saying to use the same command in powershell to remove gaming services and I keep getting an error. I've tried to Download the Create Windows 10 installation media application and still no luck. Any suggestions?

[@MikeTheTech]

What error?

[@charliehyde1843]

@@MikeTheTech the error is "0x80070002"

[@charliehyde1843]

​@@MikeTheTech youtube keeps deleting my comment with the error code

[@KEDDY_PRODUCTIONS]

i cant stop the second gaming services; it just says "stopping" on it

[@MikeTheTech]

Video notes that you'll need to restart your PC after many of the steps.

[@Sugga189]

This doesn't work for me since i can't restart the Gaming Services thing and i can't start it either please help me!

[@MikeTheTech]

Continue the tutorial. Those were like 2 of many solutions.