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I have been a happy Gridmove user for years, and I use the combination Win+G to change into the "send window to grid location" mode. Now I got a new work computer with Windows 10, and when I press Win+G, it pulls up a small window asking me "Is this a game?". I have to click on the grid entry window to return focus to it, which introduces a lot of friction in the wrong place.

I won't play games on this computer, and if I did, I don't see why I would want a "game bar" anyway. How do I tell Windows to forget its shortcut mapping of this combination so I can use it for Gridmove?

I am not just asking how to add a new mapping. The mapping I need is already added by GridMove. But the problem is that both get invoked and the function started by the Windows mapping takes precedence.

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It turns out that there is a registry key for that.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR

AppCaptureEnabled DWORD should be set to 0 and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore

GameDVR_Enabled DWORD should be set to 0.

This site offers a .reg file which will change it when open with the registry editor.

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Its easy. Just open Xbox app from start menu. Then visit settings from left, and pick Game DVR tab. In top you will see "Record game clips and screenshots using Game DVR" - so, just disable it and all will be fine :)

Good luck :)

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I tried the registry key edits listed in Rumi P.’s answer to turn off the Game Bar in Windows 10 when playing World of Warcraft. None of them worked.

I did find a different key that worked, however:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\GameBar

In there I found an entry for ShowStartupPanel. I changed the DWORD value to 0 and voilà – no more annoying game bar message in WoW.

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