How to uninstall Xbox on Windows

The Xbox app keeps very little of its own on this PC: its settings and cache sit inside a Microsoft Store package data folder, tied to your Microsoft account, and Windows removes that folder as part of removing the app itself. Games you installed through the Xbox app live in their own separate install location and are not covered here; check the app's own library before removing it if you are not sure what is installed. This guide covers the Xbox app installed per-user from the Microsoft Store.

Quit the Xbox app first

Close every Xbox window, then right-click its icon in the taskbar's overflow area and choose to exit. Check Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) for any Xbox* process still listed. You may also see "Xbox Game Bar Widgets" there; that belongs to Xbox Game Bar, a separate built-in Windows feature, and does not need to close before you remove the Xbox app.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Xbox, and choose Uninstall (or right-click its Start Menu tile). If you installed it through winget, you can also run:

winget uninstall --source msstore --id 9MV0B5HZVK9Z

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.GamingApp_8wekyb3d8bbwe`	The Xbox app's own settings and cache, tied to your Microsoft account	Removed automatically with the app
Gaming Services (a separate installed program)	A background service other Store games and Xbox features depend on	Leave it installed unless you also want to remove it on its own
Xbox Game Bar, its text-input service, and Windows' identity provider	Parts of Windows itself, not the Xbox app	Never remove these; they stay after Xbox is gone

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process -Name "Xbox*" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-AppxPackage -Name Microsoft.GamingApp
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Packages\Microsoft.GamingApp_8wekyb3d8bbwe"

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown. A listed process named XboxPcApp, XboxPcAppFT or XboxPcAppAdminServer means it is still open; "Xbox Game Bar Widgets" belongs to a different, still-installed component and is expected.
If Get-AppxPackage succeeds without suppressed errors, no output means the package is gone. A result means the app is still installed.
Test-Path returning False means the app's data container is gone, which is expected once the app is removed; True is unexpected and means something is still there.

Account and subscription

Uninstalling the Xbox app does not cancel Xbox Game Pass or any other subscription, and it does not sign you out of your Microsoft account on this PC or any other device.

What Mole lists

For the Xbox app installed per-user from the Microsoft Store:

The package's data container is listed and selected by default. In this test, Windows had already deleted it as part of removing the Store package, before Mole's own step ran, so there was nothing left to move.
Several processes run from the same package folder (the app itself, plus its background and admin helpers). Mole folds all of them into one process row instead of listing each one separately. Xbox Game Bar Widgets runs from a different package and keeps its own row.
Gaming Services and Windows' own Xbox Game Bar, its text-input service and identity provider stay installed after Xbox is removed. Their data, protocol registrations and firewall rules belong to those still-installed components, not to Xbox, so Mole does not offer them.
A placeholder Start Menu tile folder Windows itself creates for the Store listing is not offered for removal.

Games installed through the Xbox app are not part of this list.

What this test covered

Tested with the Xbox app (build 2609.1001.16.0, ARM64) installed through winget from the Microsoft Store, per-user scope. Not verified: an installed game library, a signed-in Xbox account, and removing Xbox while Gaming Services or Game Bar are also being removed.