Xbox Game Bar performances widget stops working and no longer refreshes and freezes.

Hi ! Thanks a lot for your answer,

it seems to work.

Best regards

Hello HighPK,



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Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows

Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows | Xbox Support

Open PowerShell and run it as admin

Run the command below

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Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay* | Remove-AppxPackage

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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.

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Hello again, good to know back to normal.

But this is an option of the Game Bar, if it is the bar settings has the widget transparency option but works only if you fix the widget.

Hi YanYannnn,

Yes, closing the Xbox Social widget in the Game Bar temporarily resolves the issue.

I say 'temporarily' because I'd still consider this a workaround to a continuing bug in Game Bar. Once I've left my party, it should stop using my microphone immediately. I should not need to also close the Xbox Social widget.

I don't suppose there's any way to flag this as a technical issue so it gets to a dev team, is there?

Thanks,

Kieran