Windows 10: How to disable Game bar win+G hotkey?!

Hello everyone,I want to use the shortcut win+g for other things in my computer, but it is hardcoded into Game bar for some reason. It is just bad UX.I tried disabling game bar by setting AppCaptureEnabled in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR and GameDVR_Enabled in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore to 0 but game bar is still active and win+g always brings it up.Even closing the gameBar process doesn't work as it keeps on opening itself with win+gI know that I can completely uninstall XboxGamingOverlay, but it is needed for some microsoft store games

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want to open game bar, but win+G repeatedly asks if "want to open game bar?"

Hi Sabinscabin,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community forum.



I suggest you to try the troubleshooting steps listed in fix problems with Game bar
on Windows 10 and check if it works.



Hope it helps.

 

Disable game bar for a certain program

1. While Google Chrome is in the forefront, open the game bar (either by clicking on the popup when it appears or with Win+G).
   
2. Click the gear (⚙️) icon to open Game Bar settings.
   
3. Uncheck "Remember this as a game ☑️".
   

 

want to open game bar, but win+G repeatedly asks if "want to open game bar?"

Hi Junaid_A,

Yes, I had already looked at that page; neither of the tips on there applies in my case. The game bar works fine for three out of the four versions of the game I described in my original post. alt+win+R for direct recording also works fine for three out
of four. Hence, it cannot possibly be that I have game bar turned off in settings. I did check, and I already have it turned on, which is expected.

However, for the vanilla AoE, game bar doesn't come up. The troubleshooting page is not relevant because it's not that "nothing happens", but a dialog comes up asking "do you want to open game bar". If I select "yes this is a game", nothing happens. If I
press win+G again, the same dialog comes up. Also if I try to directly record using alt+win+R, no timer appears, and no video capture file appears. For comparison, for the other three versions, both win+G and alt+win+R work fine with my current settings; it's
only that one version that has issues. win+G *is* getting heard by the program to indicate that I want the game bar to come up, but it's just not coming up when I'm confirming "yes, is a game".

For further comparison, if I press win+G in a non-game application like notepad, the same "do you want to open game bar" dialog comes up, and if I press "yes this is a game", the game bar *does* come up. *Only* in Age of Empires 1 vanilla retail does the
second part of that not work. Also, this cannot be because the game is too old, because the other three versions of the game were also released in 1997/98, and game bar works fine for those.