Xbox game bar on windows 11 won't open

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Hello Ghania Salsabila Fakhri,

We appreciate for your patience and understand that the methods we provided did not fix the issue.

Try to follow another troubleshooting steps that we've found.

• Make sure that the Game Mode switch is turned on. To do that in Windows 11,
  

open the Settings app (Windows + I), select Gaming on the left sidebar, and click or tap on Game Mode on the right panel. If you’re using Windows 10, open the Settings app, head to Gaming, and ensure that Xbox Game Bar is selected on the left sidebar.

• Check your Game Bar settings. Press the Start button \uE560, then choose Settings. Go to Gaming > Xbox Game bar, then turn on Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar. When playing a game, press the Windows logo key \uE560 + G to open Game Bar.
  

• Enable Xbox Game Bar via Settings. Press Win + I key and launch Windows Settings. Click the Gaming tab in the left pane and select Xbox Game Bar. Toggle the button next to Open Xbox Game Bar to “On” Reboot the system to apply changes and then launch Xbox Game Bar.
  

If still the problem does not fix, try to follow the methods in this article. Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows | Xbox Support.





We hope it worked out well for you. If not, please reply back to this forum to let us know so we could find other options to resolve the problem.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



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Thank you so much for responding. To answer your question :

1. Yes, I already checked the latest system update, and it is already on the latest update.
   
2. I already checked the setting, I already enabled the xbox game bar setting. And also the game mode setting.
   
3. Yes, I already enable the Game bar via Registry editor.
   
4. As I said before, I already tried uninstalled and install the app back again
   

I've already checked Xbox forums to see if there is similar problem, but I didn't found one. Most similar problem is solved by doing the steps you mention before. But it doesn't work for me. Is there any other way to fix this?

Hello Ghania Salsabila Fakhri,

Welcome to Xbox Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today other than this account issue.

It seems like that your Xbox Game Bar app is not working in your windows 11 PC.

Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern. However, before we proceed, we would like to ask few questions about it.

1. Have you updated the device and drivers to it's latest version?
   
2. Have you check the settings to find if there are errors?
   
3. Check if the Game Mode is
   

We found some solutions that might help you fix the issue. You can try checking the Settings to find the wrong one and enable the Game bar via Registry Editor, check the Xbox app’s hotkey setting, etc. At last, you can reset or reinstall the Xbox app to get it working again

If you’re using Windows 11, you can open the Settings app (Windows + I), select Gaming on the left sidebar, and click or tap on Game Mode on the right panel. Then, make sure that the Game Mode switch is turned on.

Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



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Microsoft Community

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this John

Just to confirm, everything in your computer is up to date?
Plesse double check this:

Open Settings, click Update and Security and then Windows Update;

Click Check for Updates;

Click the Download and Install Now option, if available (Install optional updates as well)

Also, check the Microsoft Store for any updates on the Xbox apps and its services and update everything too.

If yes, may I know if you already tried this?

Delete the registry keys associated with the game bar :

Press Windows key+R then type regedit and press Enter.
Go to this path (expand the folders using the little ">")

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR

Once there delete all the keys except (Default), restart your PC and try again

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If yes or if that didn't work. Besides the troubleshooting steps described in the post. Did you tried something else?
This is to avoid giving you the same troubleshooting steps