How to Remove the XBox Game Bar on Windows 11

The Xbox Game Bar runs on Windows 11 in the background and is part of a standard Windows 11 installation. It sits there consuming resources whether you use it or not. But what if you don't want it? The option to uninstall it is greyed out and unavailable. Not to us. Let's see how we can remove it.
2:16 - Launch Windows PowerShell
4:58 - The Command to Remove "ALL" xbox services
6:00 - The Command to Remove "The Xbox Game bar"
The PowerShell command: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage
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[@tanwirmohammad2178]

Thanks man... This really worked. I tried other ways and wasted 5 hrs....But this video paid me.

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Have a great day and thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it a lot.

[@positivits]

I love how you did a video to answer a subscribers question. Subbed because of that alone.

[@TLTechLife]

Thanks for joining. I do my best to try and help where I can. Appreciate you taking the time to comment. Have a great day!

[@wegaveitago]

Same. That’s cool you specifically answered a sub with a video.

[@eliolagasi148]

Banger Video and straight to the point, appreciate it!

[@stevelouis2203]

Thank you so much. I tried so many other methods and this is the only one that worked.

[@MaxxTheKitsune]

You're a lifesaver sir, thank you so much

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching. Have a great day!

[@notthemenemy]

Thanks bro. Got rid of it. Win/G does nothing now, brilliant.

[@TLTechLife]

I so glad it helped you. Have a terrific day!

[@nitto999]

You earned my subscription! Great video and excellent tutorial. Thank you sir.

[@TLTechLife]

Absolute pleasure my friend. Glad to have helped you out. Have a fantastic day and thanks for the sub and positive feedback.

[@rijkaard1579]

Big thanks!

[@manuelfree06]

Since I removed the game bar, small screens keep appearing where they say they can't open the app since there isn't that specific app on the PC. Obviously if you close it the game starts, but it's something I don't know. I like it, can it be removed?

[@George5.]

Thank You So Much

[@usermnm1104]

Thanks bro! I switched to nvidia in game overlay and needed a way to get rid of gamebar for good.

[@menbehavingsadly2174]

Absolute legend. Any chance you can do a video on how to get rid of all of the other crap on Windows 11? I just find there’s so much crap that gets installed and so much of it I never use. It’s annoying.

[@TLTechLife]

It just so happens I am in the process of creating that very video. It will take a while because I want it to be easy to follow, yet comprehensive. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your ideas, I appreciate that a lot. Have a great day!

[@Mustfa4Real]

now how to fix Microsoft pop ups when trying lunching a game after removing gamebar 🤢

[@TLTechLife]

Tell me more, my friend. I’ll try and fix it for you.

[@ATShighwayhaulers]

Lunching? You might consider trying dinnering instead. I’ve heard it works a little better 🤣

[@Mustfa4Real]

@@TLTechLife Microsoft store asking me to download gamebar again after removing it is there fix and don't tell me disable it from settings i already have it disabled each time I want to play game this annoying Microsoft Store Ask Me to Download Gamebar

[@user-ih3mp7wj6j]

​@@Mustfa4Reali have the same problem it's annoying 😤 found any solution ?

[@Mustfa4Real]

@@user-ih3mp7wj6j No Still Not 😓

[@Nunya-_-]

I don’t get how you knew to do this? How did you know what symbols and when to use spaces etc? How can i learn to do this? I guess it’s like anything e.g a car mechanic. You just study and learn along the way? I would like to know how to do this for other programs as well without having to look it up. So what is this process called and how do i learn it? Sorry for the long comment and i understand if you don’t want to answer or dont have time to answer… Now windows has it in a setting called “ system components” which it won’t let you delete 🤦‍♂️… anyways appreciate the tutorial this helped me get rid of it 👍👍👍

[@TLTechLife]

Hello, thanks for the great questions. I’ve been working with computers since I was 9 so you learn a thing or two. Once you learn things like programming or scripting you tend to look at things differently. Often you’ll find the windows gui only presents some things you can do, but command prompts and scripts expose a lot more things and offer you more power to do things. I would pick something like windows powershell or python to start and begin by figuring out something you wish to do, like automating something you do daily. Then through trial and error figure out how to write that script. Once you start doing this, it can become quite addictive and you’ll learn so much. As for system components I wouldn’t muck around too much there as it’s called system components for a reason. Deleting things there might kill windows for you. So stick with playing with things that don’t matter or use hyper v on windows and create a virtual machine where you can play and delete anything without affecting your main machine. Good luck, thanks for the great questions and have a fantastic day!

[@Nunya-_-]

@@TLTechLife Hmm ok very interesting. Guess ill have to just play around with it and research… Sorry but i have one more question since it is now in system components do you think I should have not deleted it xbox game overlay? It has posed no problem other then i do get a pop up when i first start a game saying it can’t find the program to run and to download it. This doesn’t affect me as i just hit esc and thats the end of it. i did create a restore point maybe i should restore just in case it causes future issues?… Btw I appreciate you taking the time to answer

[@fedegod-mo8rt]

Magnificent :"3 I was tired of that thing I already use the nvidia overlay and It was annoying

[@TLTechLife]

Glad it helped. I use the Nvidia overlay too. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it.

[@miklaus2873]

i installed forza motorsport 2023 and it reinstalled gamebar, it cannot be disabled in any option and if you repeat this tutorial you find out that the file in system32 is still renamed and all registry entries are set as we already did, but somehow the gamebar is back working again. How do we disable it once for all?

[@jrapplefan2231]

I was asking it for years and nobody was able to do it. Thanks. How to remove rhe two others xbox service ?

[@TLTechLife]

You’re welcome. You can run the same command but substitute one of the other names from that list. Was that what you were referring to or have I misunderstood your question?

[@jrapplefan2231]

You are right. Thanks.

[@jrapplefan2231]

Also, it wod be fun to be able to debloat my Samsung S23 Ultra.

[@swaye86]

Thank you so much!

[@johnemerick5860]

Thanks!😅subbed.

[@TLTechLife]

You’re most welcome John. Thanks for watching and subscribing mate. Have a great day!

[@Mxmbx]

I did that but how i get it back??

[@icemotion1925]

The powershell cmd worked. Thanks, frustrating how they made it unremovable from the settings

[@TLTechLife]

So glad to be of service. Yes it should be a simple uninstall but sadly many of the things in modern Windows are not like that any more. Have a great new year!

[@MustiTek-c9x]

Thx Bro it was annoying instantly recording and doing shit even turned off it took so much fps while playing no I got finally rid of I hate Microsoft for forcing their customers to use that shit even if u don’t need it

[@Shadeaflame]

Oh no I can't play Microsoft games anymore... Whatever will i do after executing this command

[@Rockovissi]

Will this disable the share button? Because that’s my ultimate goal. You can’t disable that in Windows anymore, you used to. I use that button for other things but now whenever I press it, it takes a screenshot and I don’t want that. Or if you long hold, it records.

[@fungi_08]

i finally removed this shit

[@TLTechLife]

Happy to help 😊

[@mrsharky3838]

hello friend it worked but now im having a pop up when i start the game that ms gaming overlay is missing do u know how to remove that one aswell?

[@carterdelaney4648]

Thank you! The xbox game bar was causing so many issues for me, this was a really handy tutorial :)

[@andriizakrevskyi5335]

what exactly did it fix for you?

[@justplaygames7804]

@@andriizakrevskyi5335 Enabling it may cause stuttering, even with a decent FPS count in your game, making it feel laggier, and I've experienced the same issue.

[@andriizakrevskyi5335]

@@justplaygames7804 is it better to disable the feature for a high-end pc?

[@NukeCloudstalker]

@@andriizakrevskyi5335 It's causing crashes for me. So yea.

[@SunnyCreatives]

I wish you'd just copy and pasted them in the description.

[@SantaClause-m9h]

I have game bar and all other Xbox related apps uninstalled but I'm still getting game bar plugin updates from the store. how do I stop these? there is nothing installed under installed aps to do with gaming services for MS or Xbox.

[@milessteamaccount]

thank you for this. Im in the process of debloating my windows 11 laptop and desktop and was wondering if its possible to get rid of the gamebar entirely.

[@dawnholly]

Why show us what not to do without explaining that? I entered what you said and hit enter - then you say "but we don't want to do that"

[@paul44ur]

Thank you

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Thank you for watching.

[@hobojuice5654]

good video

[@TLTechLife]

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked it. Have a great day!

[@GG-ou7it]

You are a fucking legend mate

[@bsvictor1]

Thank you!

[@TLTechLife]

You’re very welcome.

[@stealthhunter6998]

Xbox game bar is not in my installed apps area in the settings, yet its 100% on my PC cause pressing Win + G brings it up. Any ideas? I did the well known gamebarpresence wwritter fix but I doubt thats the reason for it not showing in my installed apps. In my proccess in task manager its just "game bar". Maybe in the latest version of Win 11 some stuff has changed? Will this still work for me?

[@TLTechLife]

I would imagine yes it would work but I’m going to take a look into this. Perhaps it’s a new patch, one which I’ll fix 😂

[@stealthhunter6998]

@@TLTechLife Thanks cause I have no way of accessing those settings u got to in ur vid cause it cant be found in installed apps lol. Idk why microsoft insist on forcing this game breaking (literally sometimes) software on us. Dead Space Remake has tons of stuttering issues and I was gonna use DXVK to make it run of Vulkan since that gets rid of the issue but cant do that unless all overlays are off.

[@Revolt101_1]

@@stealthhunter6998 have the same issue it’s driving me crazy

[@eskevarmkdrake]

Thanks for helping me remove this piece of junk. I have been using Windows since version 3.1 and honestly, unlike Microsoft which continues to say that its system is faster and faster, I only notice a system full of rubbish, spyware and supervision which reduces freedom with each version of the user to use their hardware, internet bandwidth and electricity as they wish.

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Feel free to hit me up when something else invades your privacy too. If I can figure it out I’ll make a video. Enjoy your day!

[@sublime1558]

Thank you so much. Insane how they try to make it mandatory to keep despite how intrusive it is. It pops up all the time from random things because it thinks everything is a game for me, even web browsers. There's no way to uninstall it normally. I absolutely hate programs like this. Thanks!

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure, glad to have helped. Hope you have a fantastic day!

[@Logical_Duck]

I was trying to reinstall it because I use it to play with friends on CoD with voice chat. Ima try it in a bit.

[@Mgdfurry]

is it okay if i wanna delete ALL Of the xbox stuff?

[@retr0pearce765]

I'm usually not a Microsoft hater, but gamebar does really suck, having just upgraded to Win11 I came to realize that it is enabled by default with no normal option to disable it, just consuming resources. Thanks for the video :)

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Glad to have helped.

[@P-RI3ST]

why didnt you write all the commands mate in the description????????? anyway best video

[@redko79]

And what's the difference between XboxGamingOverlay and XboxGameOverlay?

[@TLTechLife]

Actually to be perfectly honest I don’t know. But I do know that the method I gave to remove it is right. Now that you’re piqued my curiosity, I shall find out. Thank you for the challenge.

[@lecksippi]

Thank You

[@ItzJustMako616]

did this and everything worked perfectly so thank you. game bar is such a bad app. on another note, i found it odd how I couldn't find the game bar app anywhere in my computer EXCEPT for typing it into the windows search. but after running these commands with powershell, its gone from there too. worked smoothly thanks!

[@Vod_MacDuff]

I remember doing this years ago and couldn't remember how. Somehow, windows put it back on my computer, and I found out by accident. I don't need the resources freed up by this, I just don't want it there when I already removed it.

[@TLTechLife]

Well I’m here if you want it removed.

[@emersynkayle7548]

Tysm!

[@TLTechLife]

You’re very welcome. Have a great day!

[@Stroimex]

I'm noticing games started having moments of heavy stutter as well as a notification of windows telling me it's trying to open xbox gamebar. I'm guessing everything is happening because of a windows function so what can I do?

[@arielgalang1117]

Thankyou gamebar is f annoying. It keeps on recording while im playing eldenring

[@williamr1088]

Good because I use Nvidia's Shadowplay for Recording and Screenshots and don't need unwanted apps like Game Bar from clogging up my other recording device shadowplay.

[@joshuahall4575]

thank you

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure mate.

[@lourd382]

you're a life saver bro this fucking game bar keeps on messing with my steam big picture

[@pandazz2940]

Omg thank you so much, I tried everything and nothing worked until this video, thank you SO MUCH

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Glad to help out. Have a fantastic day!

[@e.palpatine2464]

👍

[@Commodore_1979]

Thanks a lot for this video! Sadly now I get a message saying I don't have an app for this link, every time I turn on or while I'm using my xbox controller... Any ideas? Thanks a lot again!

[@tanwirmohammad2178]

Hi... Thanks that I deleted my xbox all the fikes thats what I needed. But sir, after this my short cut key, cntrl C is not working. I have tried to reinstall/ update the keyboard file from device manager, but I failed. Please make a video to restore my short cut key command. Although Cntrl X and Cntrl V is working fine. Thanks.

[@octaviosilva-gm2bh]

It didn't work I still find it executing on task manager, I am on Windows 11 for reference if that matters...

[@zevfnt]

an aussie legend, love you mate

[@TLTechLife]

Love you too! Thanks for the magic comment and glad to have helped. Have a great day mate!

[@jasa3919]

Every single tutorial from you is a god send, truly the best

[@TLTechLife]

That’s high praise. Thank you so much for the kind words and for sharing your feedback. Have a fantastic day!

[@elviscera4661]

Interesting, but begs the question of why steam/pc only gaming (i.e. no xbox, no ps) requiress any xbox content?

[@dpc111]

Just did this. Xbox won't open until the gamebar is reinstalled. Not sure if that is a recent change but that is what happened to me.

[@notoatng-ch]

thank sir😁

[@Drolx.]

thank u boss it works !

[@TLTechLife]

You are very welcome. Glad I could help you. Have a great day!

[@Drolx.]

@@TLTechLife u too man

[@paulgilson2347]

I want it but it isn't working, all that comes up is a box so I can record and audio controls. No top bar so can't check fps etc.

[@Mgdfurry]

is it okay if i wanna delete ALL Of the xbox stuff?

[@louise5426]

Thank you for the easy how to video .. may I ask why not uninstall all Xbox services? I would prefer to uninstall them all. What harm may this cause? Thank you.

[@TLTechLife]

Hi Louise, great questions. The Gamebar is obviously an overlay that (in most cases) automatically detects when you are playing a supported game and immediately starts recording your gameplay in the background. Now that does consume resources of course. For example, I use a 4k monitor and play games at 4k, if that overlay runs and starts recording my gameplay at high bitrates that's a lot of wasted processing and disk space (albeit temporary). It could slow your pc down and if you stream or record games, often people prefer to use OBS or Streamlabs or something like that. However the other services could be useful if you are ever logging into the xbox live service, or maybe need to connect a controller to your pc for example . These services are usually set to manual and aren't started unless you use something that needs them, unlike the gamebar which is always there in the background and does consume some resources. So you can remove the others if they really concern you, but you probably don't need to bother with doing that. As for the harm it may cause, well nothing really. If you ever find yourself needing those again you can reinstall them using Windows PowerShell in much the same way. Hope that helps answer your question.

[@louise5426]

@@TLTechLife hello again, what happens if you delete all Xbox services? are they really needed if you never play any games at all ever? does it effect anything else from running on your laptop? Thank you so much .. I just find all of them to be a waste of space .. am I correct in thinking so?

[@ItsArunShan]

Does removing the Game Bar messes up the Indexing? Becuz after removing the gamebar i got a message saying indexing was turned off. Not sure if this happened to you guys?

[@thebladedbeast3711]

How do I reinstall it? I was having errors with it not working so I was attempting to fix it.

[@Gaddafist23]

life saving.

[@Mystrage]

did what the video said, but window 10 just reinstalled it on reset

[@Cabotv]

Thanks! Thats worked for me!

[@TLTechLife]

Glad it helped. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it.

[@lewiskelly423]

Can i reinstall once ive removed? My game bar is really buggy at the minute but i use it alot? It makes my pc crash and my microphone works for like 10 seconds before it just stops. So i wanna uninstall and reinstall to see if that sorts out the issue. Thanks

[@Darkshine585]

Thanks

[@TLTechLife]

Welcome my friend.

[@dom29611]

thank you very much bro

[@TLTechLife]

My absolute pleasure bro! Have a great day!

[@MrMacob451]

what if Xbox game bar doesn't show up when i open apps and installed apps

[@sedansquad6959]

Can i remove all of these and i dont play any xbox games or do anything related to xbox on my pc..

[@Svayam28]

What if i remove all those 5 Xbox things?

[@judeoludunmade837]

Thank you soo much😢

[@TLTechLife]

Absolute pleasure my friend! 😊

[@fluxqp]

good shit

[@TLTechLife]

Why thank you! ☺️

[@nap5tablook]

Thank you so much for the instructions *and* also explaining what the commands do, it really means a lot for someone who's not as tech savvy!

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. Happy to have helped 😄

[@eleusklose83]

thank you so much man! it worked! i was so sick of it randomly coming up all the time. i was surching for 3 hours untill i came across you so thank you so much !!!! sub for that :)

[@Dilzze]

Thank you!

[@clipss12217]

Cheers Mate 😂💪🏾

[@dante1788]

Thanks Man , Really Helped.

[@Crb147]

It worked, it finally worked. Thanks, man

[@stefanarsic6581]

Thanks this video only work,thanks a lot

[@wock7112]

how to get it bk

[@shennawyz]

thanks mate.

[@TLTechLife]

An absolute pleasure my friend.

[@T2DARLANTANAH]

This doesn't work for me on windows 11. Tried the exact command and ran it but doesn't remove game bar

[@theworld7142]

Thanks

[@Him69429]

Subscribed. Thanks!

[@jorgepena2612]

Thank you sooo much. Thanks for explaining.

[@suruxs]

Helped me out appreciate the video 👍

[@darkraisdream]

thank you so so much. it works a little differently now or at least for me it was a little bit different to search for gamebar, but everything in the powershell was flawless!! thank you for this, youre a life saverrrr

[@YuiWh0]

a way to disable the app running in the background?

[@TLTechLife]

Well this method will remove it and prevent it from ever running, are you after a ‘kill the running app’ and let it restart when you reboot option?

[@Trockenfurz]

my noob solution, cuz this vid went way too long: 1) open windows explore 2) go to c:windows 3) write xbox into the searchbar 4) delete all folders popping up 😂

[@andrei1-_-337]

This video was educational, it has accessible language, it was a lot of help for me! Removed this damn overlay and even learned other PowerShell things. Thank you very much.

[@TLTechLife]

My pleasure. It’s great to learn powershell, but glad to have helped with the Xbox gamebar. Thanks for the positive feedback. It means a lot.

[@Mustfa4Real]

man anyone can help me to disable remember my apps from account settings on windows 11 pro i disable it but its getting back enabled alone each time I reboot my Pc

[@TLTechLife]

Hello there. I assume you mean the setting that is found in ‘settings’, ‘accounts’, ‘windows backup’? So if you turn that radio button off it is on when you restart?

[@Mustfa4Real]

yes that annoying setting I don't want it disabled but it's re enabled again after restart the pc I don't know why but its using my network resources my system is windows 11 pro

[@Urine666Deity]

fuck the game bar lol thanks m8

[@TLTechLife]

You’re most welcome. Glad to have helped.

[@vitas9896]

Now i get a gaming overlay link message, any way to solve this? its annoying

[@TLTechLife]

Can you share more information about this error so I can help?

[@treeplanter20]

just says something like microsoft store couldnt find anything related to gaming overlay. very annoying if you find a fix please lmk@@TLTechLife

[@Commodore_1979]

@@TLTechLife Basically is a message saying that you don't have an app for a such device or "link"... I quote it because my Windows is in spanish, so I'm not sure which exact words are used in the message. If you go to Aplications, then "default apps" you still can see the xbox gambar there... and all the other "links" saying which app will be used.