Disable the Windows 10 game bar

Disable the Windows 10 game bar

Problem

When using Windows 10 the Game Bar window is posted to the screen possibly when press Windows+G or just letter G in other applications

Resolution

To disable the Game Bar feature you will need to make the following registry changes.

Step one: registry modifcations

Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GameDVR

Value name: AllowgameDVR
Value type: DWORD (32-bit)
Value data: 0

Location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR

Value name: AppCaptureEnabled
Value type: DWORD (32-bit)
Value data: 0

Location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore

Value name: GameDVR_Enabled
Value type: DWORD (32-bit)
Value data: 0

After making the above changes restart the PC.

Step 2: Removing the Game Bar feature

Now open Powershell as administrator and use the below command to remove the Xbox app from Windows 10:

Get-AppxPackage *xboxapp* | Remove-AppxPackage

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