Xbox Live Service in Fall Creators Update - How to Switch it Off?

jameswesthead · 23 Oct 2017

I have just noticed that a thing called Xbox Live Service is running on my PC.
I can see it under System Settings - Xbox Networking.
Can it be switched off?
Note: that I have used an elevated Windows Powershell Window to run the

Get-AppxPackage *xbox* | Remove-AppxPackage

command, but it fails, basically telling me that it 'thinks that maybe it can't be done'.(??)

Any ideas? I will never own an Xbox and can do without unwanted services running on my PC.

Eagle51 · 23 Oct 2017

Hey jameswesthead,
Go to Services (search > type services > click on services) and check to see if any of the Xbox Services are running (stop them if they are) and make sure their startup is set to manual.

Note: Some of the Xbox stuff is baked into Windows 10 and can't be removed, but you should be able to remove the Xbox Apps.

Get-AppxPackage *xboxapp* | Remove-AppxPackage

TairikuOkami · 23 Oct 2017

jameswesthead said:

I will never own an Xbox and can do without unwanted services running on my PC.

Xbox also applies to some store games.

There are those 5 services I know about. Run CMD as admin and copy/paste:

Code:

reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\xbgm" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "4" /f
sc config XblAuthManager start= disabled
sc config XblGameSave start= disabled
sc config XboxGipSvc start= disabled
sc config XboxNetApiSvc start= disabled