Disable Xbox Game Bar And DVR In Windows 10: Step-By-Step Guide

So you like to game on your desktop computer. And everytime you open up your game in your Windows 10 PC you see a small pop up appear which is a shortcut to let you either record or take a screenshot of your gameplay. And that little shortcut is known as the Xbox game bar.

For many gamers, it is a simple and useful tool to either live stream online on various platforms such as Twitch or Youtube. But for many, this feature is just disturbing. Because there is a downfall to this feature. This is a feature which can cause various different lags while gaming and that too especially if you have a low-end PC. Well, you can try using the game mode in Windows 10 to have a better gaming experience, if it helps.

Disable Xbox Game Bar And DVR In Windows 10: Step-By-Step Guide

But if it doesn’t then you need to seek a better alternative. And that is to disable this feature. And if you need guidance on how you can disable this feature? Well, in this guide of ours we are gonna walk you through step by step on how to disable Xbox game Bar And DVR in Windows 10.

Switch Off Game Bar By Using This Technique

This is an easy method which you can implement to turn off the game bar in your Windows 10 PC. To do so, go through the following steps: Firstly go to your Windows key (click on the Windows icon on the bottom left) and then type in “settings”. And you click on the settings option, After that, you will be taken to a new tab. There you will click on this option which says “Gaming” (with an Xbox logo).

Disable Xbox Game Bar And DVR In Windows 10

And then you go this option which says “Game bar”. And from there toggle off this option which says “Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using game bar”. After that, you can also uncheck these two options which say “Open game bar using this button on a controller” and “Show game bar when I play full-screen games Microsoft has verified”

Switch Off Game Bar By Using This Technique

And then you will have successfully deactivated Game Bar in your Windows 10 computer.

Turn off the Xbox game DVR through the app

The Game DVR feature is a sub-feature of the Game Bar in Windows 10 which lets you record and also take screenshots of your gameplay. And if you don’t find this feature useful and is causing you problems while gaming, then you can implement the following steps to disable GameDVR in Windows 10… Firstly open up your search settings (click on the Windows icon on the lower left corner). And then you type in “Xbox” and then you will see your application appear.

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From there you go to settings (that little gear icon on the bottom) and then you click on this option which says “Game DVR”. After that, you simply toggle off the option which you see there which says “record game clips and screenshots using Game DVR”.

Turn off the Xbox game DVR through the app

And like this, you can easily disable Game DVR in your Windows 10 computer.

Disable the Xbox game DVR By Using The Registry

Using the registry is another method which you can implement to disable your Xbox game DVR in your Windows 10 computer. Just follow the simple steps above and you can disable this feature… Firstly press your Windows key and R simultaneously and you will see your “Run” command open up. And then you type in “regedit” and press enter. Then you open up your registry.

Disable the Xbox game DVR By Using The Registry

 After that just go through the following steps: Then go to this file which says “HKEY_CURRENT_USER”. From there go to this file which says “System”. And then click on “GameConfigStore”. And there you will see this DWORD which says “GameDVR_Enabled”. So you right click on that file and click on this option which says “modify”. From there you change the value data from one to zero and then click on “OK”.

Disable the Xbox game DVR By Using The Registry

After that, you again go to your default registry menu and click on this file which says “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”. And then you click on this folder which says “Software”. And then you click on this folder which says “policies”. So you click on that and then you click on this folder named “Microsoft”. After that, you click on this software which says “Windows”. After that, you go to an empty area in the “Windows” folder and right-click over there and click on “Key”. And you name that key file as “GameDVR”. After that, you go to that file and right-click on an empty space and make a new 32-bit DWORD there. And name it “AllowGameDVR”. And then you right click on that DWORD and click on “modify” and make sure that the value data there is set to zero.

Disable the Xbox game DVR By Using The Registry

Final Thoughts

You can implement these three easy methods to disable your Game Bar and DVR in your Windows 10 computer. I hope this article helped you and if it did I would greatly appreciate a small facebook share 🙂 Also, if you have any queries, then you can comment down below.

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