• Tasks for the weekend – June 26 – dealing with the Store

    Posted on June 26, 2021 at 23:19 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Youtube here

    So yesterday and earlier today I had to deal with two computers that spontaneously had an Xbox gaming widget on the system that greyed out the screen. (you can see it in action here)

    Once I rebooted the systems the widget went away and I proactively put a registry key to ensure it didn’t come back. I think, based on reviewing the event logs on both systems, that a Microsoft Store update that got installed yesterday on my home pc and early this morning at the office.

    EventData
    updateTitle 9WZDNCRFJBD8-Microsoft.XboxApp
    updateGuid {69e8be91-65f1-4436-96b8-9025450413d7}

    Remember that there is more that gets updated behind the scenes than just the Windows updates that you visually see. Office 365 click to run silently updates in the background unless you overtly stop the Office updating process. The Microsoft store is another behind the scenes updating process as well.

    If you want to stop/block the Microsoft store, there are ways to do it as well as following PK’s excellent tutorial. Now mind you this is advanced stuff and not for all.  Many a system has been rendered unbootable if removing the apps weren’t done correctly. So I recommend this only for advanced users.

    Bottom line when your computer does weird things, sometimes it’s not you. It’s REALLY not you.

    Windows 10
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