Error 0x87e000196, and I can't uninstall gaming services due to my user folder permissions.

Hi, Garrett. I'm Kim, an Independent Advisor and I’m happy to help you today.

Sorry you’re going through this. Kindly check if you have any pending updates using this link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo... or select Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update , and then select Check for updates.

If there's nothing pending, kindly right-click the Start button on your taskbar, and then select Windows Terminal (Admin). In the Administrator: Windows PowerShell screen, type the following command and press Enter:

Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage

Please also check if you install your games using MS store app.

The Xbox game client application is terrible, it installs the game but locks you out of even read permissions to the folder location. When I attempted to uninstall flight simulator all it did was delete the launcher and shortcut, but not ANY of the actual
game files or folders. 100GB of lost space on my disk.

You have to edit the folder permissions and take Ownership of the folder just so you can delete it, that is not something which most users would be comfortable attempting, and it resets permissions to lock you out of your own hard disk if you reboot too,
so you have to take ownership of the folder, apply it and then delete it manually if you want rid of it all.

As for the missing premium content I doubt that uninstalling and reinstalling would fix that.

Thank you for contact us! I'm Anderson, an Independent Consultant and a Microsoft user like you.

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If there is an error when uninstalling, it is likely that I cannot delete the folder manually due to restricted access to them. If the game is from EA Play needs to be uninstalled by EA desktop app.

If there really was a problem in the uninstallation, only the formatting will be able to remove what was left in the folder.

I have the same issue as you, but I'm unable to even move files due to Xbox game folders having this permission I can't change preventing me from writing into the data directory.

Yes I have already done this as part of the process of completely uninstalling Xbox and Microsoft Store Apps and related data.

To clarify: I uninstalled The Xbox App, Microsoft Store App, Xbox Console Companion, Xbox Game Bar, Gaming Services, deleted the contents of the Windows Temp folder and the "AppData\Local\Temp" folder. I also deleted the LocalCache folder and TokenBroker folder inside "Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsStore_8wekyb3d8bbwe"

I then restarted my computer and reinstalled The Xbox App, Microsoft Store App, Xbox Console Companion, Xbox Game Bar and Gaming Services. I also made sure Gaming Services was running before launching Omori again. I received the same error as I did before.

I have done as you asked though: uninstalled Gaming Services, reinstalling it and then installed Omori. I still get the same error.