I'm experiencing persistent Xbox Game Pass popups on our Windows 11 Pro machines that are part of our domain. Despite our efforts to remove every Xbox and gaming app, disable notifications, and tweak desktop settings, the popups keep resurfacing. I've set `SubscribedContent-338388Enabled` and `338389Enabled` to `0x0`, but nothing seems to work. It's frustrating that Microsoft's Group Policy solutions only cater to Enterprise editions, considering these are business systems. Has anyone successfully tackled this issue?
4 Answers
Check out this snippet from my SCCM task sequence:
```powershell
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where PackageName -Like "*Microsoft.xbox*" | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -AllUsers
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Name *Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
```
Running this might help clear out Xbox-related apps properly. Just a heads up, I'm running Education edition, which is supposed to be a lighter version of Enterprise, yet I still deal with Xbox stuff showing up.
I've had this on a Pro setup too, but we managed to avoid it. One thing to try is creating a custom image using the Deployment Toolkit, which might help with disabling Xbox features. Also, take a peek at your scripts – sites like privacy.sexy have some great ones. You can run a command like `Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage` as a scheduled task to get rid of those annoying apps.
Switching to Linux is the ultimate fix for this kind of hassle! But I get it, that's not practical for most businesses.
If only there were a magical fix for those popups! The simplest solution, though, is to run the correct OS version—Enterprise. I've heard it handles these issues better.
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