What is 'gamebarpresencewriter.exe' and How to Disable It

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Originally published at: What is 'gamebarpresencewriter.exe' and How to Disable It

In the recent updates, Microsoft released a feature named as “Game Bar” in Windows which allows users to record their experience when they are playing games. This is a very useful feature and gets handy as you don’t have to exit the game or enable some third-party program to record your session. Instead, the game…

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takeown /s %computername% /u %username% /f “%WinDir%System32GameBarPresenceWriter.exe”
icacls “%WinDir%System32GameBarPresenceWriter.exe” /grant:r %username%:F
taskkill /im GameBarPresenceWriter.exe /f
del “%WinDir%System32GameBarPresenceWriter.exe” /s /f /q

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Did you also try the registry method after disabling it from settings?

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Nope. That does not work.

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Guess we will have to repeat these steps at every restart then.

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whenever you restart the service is running from startup as of April 2020.

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I have tested myself, is your Windows updated to the latest version?

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nope

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It should now just be in Windows’ settings. Go to Gaming and turn off Game Bar

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None of the “fixes” above work anymore. It is still running.