Whenever I open my gallery tab on the xbox gamebar a bunch of icons from games appear...

Hello Beyoso143, My name is Khaji I am the independent advisor and I will be happy to help you today.

It appears that you're experiencing an issue with the Xbox Game Bar's gallery tab. Instead of displaying the clips you've saved, it shows icons from games. When you click "open in file explorer," it takes you to your Local Disk, indicating that the issue may be related to that.

Here are a few troubleshooting steps you can try:

1. Close the Xbox Game Bar completely and clear its cache. To do this, press Windows Key + R, type "%appdata%" (without quotes), and press Enter. Locate the "Microsoft" folder, open it, and delete the "Xbox Game Bar" folder. Restart your computer and check if the issue persists.

2. Make sure that the default save location for your game clips is set correctly. Open the Xbox app on your PC, go to Settings > Captures, and ensure that the "Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar" option is enabled. Also, check the "Save captures" option and verify the location where your clips are being saved.

3. If the issue continues, you can try reinstalling the Xbox Game Bar. Press Windows Key + I to open the Settings app, go to Apps > Apps & features, search for "Xbox Game Bar," click on it, and select "Uninstall." Afterward, restart your computer, open the Microsoft Store, search for "Xbox Game Bar," and reinstall it from there.

4. Verify the settings in File Explorer to ensure that it displays the correct content. Open File Explorer, go to the "View" tab, click on "Options," and then select "Change folder and search options." In the "View" tab of the Folder Options window, make sure that the "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" option is selected. Apply the changes and check if you can access your clips from the Xbox Game Bar.

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding! If you need anything else, do not hesitate to contact us again.

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open gamebar, settings icon at top, gaming features and turn of text to speech and the rest of it.

Please double check if the Home button is being routed to Gamebar instead of Steam etc. For example, open notepad, press Win+G to bring up gamebar, you can temporarily choose Notepad as a game in the popup, follow the prompts, and choose the Gear icon for
settings in Gamebar. There should be an option there to bring up Gamebar on pressing the Xbox Home button, my suspicion is that is turned on, if you turn it off, then Steam and other programs will see the Home button.

open gamebar, at the top where you see the clock you will see a mouse icon called click though, click it, should stop that from happening.