Xbox gamepass games folder (windowsapp) has a lot of undeletable folders

Hi,

It's the WindowsApps folder in root directory of D:\ (or whatever your other drive letter is) you need to delete. These folders aren't hidden on other drives, only the C:\ drive WindowsApps folder is hidden.

The modifiable WindowsApps folder has no security protections attached to it.

Hi,

I can not say for sure if you will be able to successfully change any ini files to get more performance, and the following information I'm providing is to be performed at your own risk.

All games and apps on GamePass and the Windows Store are installed to a hidden folder called WindowsApps. This folder is located in C:\Program Files. If your game is installed on a secondary drive the WindowsApps folder will be in the root directory of the
drive.

Un-hiding this folder won't be enough to change any settings. You'll need to gain access to this folder, how to do this can be found

here.

May I ask what your system specs are and what you are trying to change?

if you change the storage location for installed apps under settings it should do it for you, if not then google removal of gamepass folders as it requires changing all the permissins and ownership of windowsapps and programfiles folders on that drive.

Windows Games from both from the PC Game Pass and the Windows Store install differently to any other PC download service such as Steam, GoG, Origin etc as they go into a protected folder.

Error code 0x80070005 is a Windows 'Access denied' error code.



All Windows 10 games and Apps from the Windows Store (including games from PC Game Pass) install to secure encrypted folder called 'WindowsApps'. On the C:\ drive the WindowsApps folder is located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps. But to see this folder you'll need to unhide it.



For any other drive, the WindowsApps folder can be found in the root directory along with two other folders 'WpSystem' and WUDownloadCache. So for example, if your drive is F:\ it will be located in F:\WindowsApps. This folder is not hidden on other drives, but it is still encrypted and protected.



If you've have installed Windows 10 again from scratch, your previous WindowsApps folder will no longer be accessible and Windows 10 will not be able to install Windows Store Apps and games to this drive until your old WindowsApps folder is deleted. This is why Windows 10 generates the 0x80070005 error code.



Please follow this guide to help you delete your current WindowsApps folder. Once done you will also need to the delete the previously mentioned 'WpSystem' and 'WUDownloadCache' folders.

Also in this directory / F:\WindowsApps / Im seeing 2 folders of the same size, totalling 100gbs, the game install was 54gbs or so, did the xbox app store 2 installs of this game in this folder? If so why? It's eating lots of storage space.