![]() Now whenever I install a new game, I am prompted with a confirmation about which drive and folder I want to install to, just like Steam. While I totally understand everyone’s technical gripes with the PC Xbox app, I thought the install location issue was solved months ago. This type of functionality has existed in most game store/manager programs for the better part of a decade yet Microsoft still can't get it together to put it into a service they are taking out of beta and are charging twice as much money for now. Meanwhile, I scanned and was able to access over two terabytes of Steam games that I have installed over the years in under a minute. My options are to throttle all system bandwidth or not at all. I ended up having to manually delete everything and install it all fresh (which, given the Xbox app doesn't have a means on its own of throttling bandwidth usage, isn't great. Even after all that, it still wouldn't recognize the games installed in the folder and would give me errors when I tried to install anything. I even went as far as moving all my games out of the WindowsApps folder, deleting the folder, letting the Xbox app remake the folder, doing the permission stuff again, moving the games back in, and deleting the AppData cache (which should technically have made the Xbox app rescan that folder and find all my games). I tried several different solutions I found), the Xbox app still wouldn't let me install to the D drive nor would it recognize that I had games installed. Even after doing all the required permission changes (and more. All my Xbox App games were on my D drive. I ran into this yesterday when I did a clean Windows install. Microsoft is very weird about coming up with things and then discontinuing them. Now the Companion App has this huge annoying banner letting you know it's being discontinued and getting rolled into the Game Pass app, but they didn't transfer over even half of the features. On the topic of the app itself - I didn't have a problem with it by itself but I am perplexed by their decision to combine it with the Xbox Companion App which was actually a pretty good one-stop-shop for your Achievements, profile, friends list etc. Weird but maybe it will help someone out if they encounter it. After it did that I was able to uninstall it cleanly from the Game Pass app. Turns out the solution to this particular problem was to go into the Windows Store, go to the updates tab and then find that specific game there and let it "update" which essentially meant re-download. Choosing uninstall would fail and I could never get rid of it. At some point I had cancelled an install midway through of a game, or something happened to it, and the icon was always showing up in my App. The problem I was having was similar to the uninstall issues above but ironically it was the Windows Store that helped me solve it. also i'm sure there is a Powershell equivalent but who the hell knows how to do that. i'm not sure how Windows would translate linux permissions. please be careful though, i wouldn't recommend moving/editing any files in this folder.Īlternatively you could try installing WSL 2 and run something like "chmod -R 755 WindowsApps" but i'm not sure, i haven't tried that yet. Now i can open the WindowsApps folder and browse through it, and i haven't had any issues running any game, even Halo Master Chief Collection hasn't had any problems. i did NOT check "Only apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container".Basic permissions: everything is checked except for "Special permissions" which is greyed out. ![]() Applies to: This folder, subfolders and files.make sure the following fields are set:. ![]()
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