Every time I login to my PC a screen advertising Game Pass appears. How do I stop this?

Hi, I had this same problem, and I found that I had to do the following to get rid of that very ANNOYING Xbox screen:

1-Click on Start and search for the Xbox app (typing "xb" is usually enough)

2-RIGHT click on the Xbox app item

3-From the right click menu, select App settings

4-Turn off the "Runs At Log-In/Xbox App Services" setting. Mine was was set to On

That did it.

Note: I'm running Windows 11 Home

This is rediculous as I never asked for nor downloaded the x-box app. The fact that the settings for me in an app I never downloaded has such a setting for me is clearly an unscrupulous sales ploy by Microsft, and probably not legal.

I been a linux user for a long time now, recently I bought a windows laptop and before installing linux I wanted to give windows 11 a try.

Among other things I stumbled with this xbox ad on every boot which not only is annoying, it is plain stupid. Cheers to the brain-dead developer that thought it was a good idea.

Also the Edge-down-your-throat browser thing...

The ad settings in you OS. I want a OS to work not to see ads, relevant or not.

See you never windows.

Cheers to the brain-dead developer that thought it was a good idea.

Developers do what the executives say to do, they don't make decisions like this.

Agreed, it's brain-dead and horrible.

Does not work for windows 10

Does not work for windows 10

This started happening to me on the windows PC I use at work. It does not have the XBOX App installed, but does have two other xbox related apps listed: Xbox Console Companion, and Xbox Game Bar. I have tried removing app permissions from both of them, for all that I could find in the "Advanced Settings". Will have to wait and see if that solves it for me.

Notable that if I open the Xbox Console Companion app, it suggests I download the new Xbox App for Windows 10, so I suspect it's probably the closest thing of the two I see.

In my system, there is no option to set it to "Off". It reads under "Lock screen notifications" that the App (Xbox Console Companion) "can show lock screen notifications". When I select the option to change those, I am transported to "Lock screen settings," where I can change nothing whatsoever.

Hi Robinson Silvestre,

this might work for people who have the Xbox app installed. The ad, unfortunately, also appears for those who have a simple Windows 11 installation like me, with "Xbox Console Companion" apparently part of that system. Isn't all that against EU law? This auto-installed software, and its annoying ads that nobody can opt out of?