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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[positivits]

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

[carterdelaney]

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

[jasa]

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

[notthemenemy]

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

[tanwirmohammad]

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

[greyishmilk]

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!

[pandazz]

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

[ItzJustMako]

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!

[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

[menbehavingsadly]

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.

[andrei-_-]

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.

[retrpearce]

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 :)

[icemotion]

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

[stevelouis]

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

[sublime]

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!

[eleusklose]

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 :)

[eliolagasi]

Banger Video and straight to the point, appreciate it!

[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 👍👍👍

[Crb]

It worked, it finally worked. Thanks, man

[SunnyCreatives]

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