Xbox game bar plugin and Microsoft people update loop

andy_drew · Jul 7, 2023

Oncovirus said:
did you try powershell removing it?

No, I didn't.

Oncovirus · Jul 7, 2023

andy_drew said:
No, I didn't.

I did this command get-appxpackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | remove-appxpackage in powershell as admin, and then reinstalled game bar, hopefully it fixes it

Oncovirus · Jul 9, 2023

andy_drew said:
No, I didn't.

So the command below didnt work, it popped up again on the store 1 day later. so now i used winget

winget uninstall "xbox game bar" winget uninstall "xbox game bar plugin" lets see if it works. i also reinstalled xbox game bar after as well. Is xbox game bar necessary for windows 11? like will it cause BSODS if not installed?

andy_drew · Jul 9, 2023

Oncovirus said:
So the command below didnt work, it popped up again on the store 1 day later. so now i used winget

winget uninstall "xbox game bar" winget uninstall "xbox game bar plugin" lets see if it works. i also reinstalled xbox game bar after as well. Is xbox game bar necessary for windows 11? like will it cause BSODS if not installed?

What I know is that it is a valuable tool for screen recording without third-party software. But MS Teams blocks this (

for online lessons).

Oncovirus · Jul 9, 2023

andy_drew said:
What I know is that it is a valuable tool for screen recording without third-party software. But MS Teams blocks this ( for online lessons).

Yea I don't use it for any purpose I have it disabled and to never run in the background , so I assume its not critical then? xbox game bar plugin appeared again after like a day so its quite annoying. is it still appearing for you?

andy_drew · Jul 9, 2023

Oncovirus said:
Yea I don't use it for any purpose I have it disabled and to never run in the background , so I assume its not critical then? xbox game bar plugin appeared again after like a day so its quite annoying. is it still appearing for you?

Yeah, just (this very moment) opened MS Store and

Oncovirus · Jul 9, 2023

andy_drew said:
Yeah, just (this very moment) opened MS Store and

Yea this is so annoying, does it actually take up space and download anything? or is it just there to be annoying

andy_drew · Jul 9, 2023

Oncovirus said:
Yea this is so annoying, does it actually take up space and download anything? or is it just there to be annoying

I hope the last one you wrote, it's really very annoying

Oncovirus · Jul 9, 2023

andy_drew said:
I hope the last one you wrote, it's really very annoying

will report back after using

winget uninstall "xbox game bar" winget uninstall "xbox game bar plugin"

after 2 days. If its still there. then oh well lol.

andy_drew · Jul 21, 2023

Oncovirus said:
will report back after using

winget uninstall "xbox game bar" winget uninstall "xbox game bar plugin"

after 2 days. If its still there. then oh well lol.

Did you solve this issue?

Oncovirus · Aug 6, 2023

andy_drew said:
Did you solve this issue?

Yea I uninstalled all the xbox apps besides gamebar and it no longer shows up in the microsoft store. I just used winget to uninstall anything with xbox in it. then reinstalled gamebar.

andy_drew · Aug 23, 2023

Oncovirus said:
Yea I uninstalled all the xbox apps besides gamebar and it no longer shows up in the microsoft store. I just used winget to uninstall anything with xbox in it. then reinstalled gamebar.

I used PowerShell as admin with commands gently posted by you. Should I also use other commands or is it done this way?

Powershell:

winget uninstall "xbox game bar" winget uninstall "xbox game bar plugin"

Oncovirus · Aug 23, 2023

andy_drew said:
I used PowerShell as admin with commands gently posted by you. Should I also use other commands or is it done this way?

Powershell:

winget uninstall "xbox game bar" winget uninstall "xbox game bar plugin"

Yes, you can also go into powershell and do winget list, and just uninstall everything xbox related, I did reinstall gamebar though right afterwards. I did those two commands you posted above and got rid of other xbox stuff as well.

Chime33 · Oct 12, 2023

This started happening to me about a month or so ago for these apps: Xbox TCUI, Xbox Identity Provider, Xbox Game Bar Plugin

Did it get fixed by itself for anyone? I see threads with the same apps and issue spanning almost a year back around the web...

johnlgalt · Oct 12, 2023

I just had this happen with the XBox app as well as Defender, starting 2 days ago.

It was circling, and if I paused and unpaused, it would simply stay circling. Rebooting didn't do squat.

Just checked today, though, and they were paused as I had left them - unpaused and they went on their merry way and installed the updates.

So, for me, it just fixed itself.

andy_drew · Oct 12, 2023

johnlgalt said:
[…] today, […]

Yes, today there was an update in Xbox Game Bar (now in Start Menu it's just called "Game Bar", if you pay attention to it). I think it has been fixed.

johnlgalt · Oct 12, 2023

I meant after trying to fix it yesterday and the day before, checking today and they installed fine instead of exhibiting the same behavior as before.

Also, mine was not the Game Bar app. Mine was the XBox app itself. And Windows Defender. And it started 2 days ago.

andy_drew · Oct 12, 2023

MS mysteries.

Chime33 · Oct 12, 2023

Now I got an update for "Xbox Game Bar" itself, hopefully that at least fixed the "Plugin" package.

johnlgalt said:
I just had this happen with the XBox app as well as Defender, starting 2 days ago.

It was circling, and if I paused and unpaused, it would simply stay circling. Rebooting didn't do squat.

Just checked today, though, and they were paused as I had left them - unpaused and they went on their merry way and installed the updates.

So, for me, it just fixed itself.

Windows Defender gets updated through the Store? Never seen that. But for me they download and "install" fine, just keeps re-appearing after exactly a day has gone.