Disabling Windows 10 Game Bar for specific application

Question

In some conditions the Windows 10's game bar opens up with my application (made with Delphi, VCL). Thats not a game and i don't directly use DirectX or OpenGL, but it opens up.

To be specific, when i reduce to tray my app and a popup is opened the Game Bar appears.

I found a numbers of sites with tutorial for totally disable the Windows 10 game bar (like this) but i want to disable for my application only, i don't think users will be happy to have a windows feature silently disabled by my app

Is this possible? I cannot find any documentation about it

Answer 1

You can disable it following this solution : Press Win+G, click the Gear icon (Settings) and uncheck "Remember this is a game" (https://superuser.com/questions/1086248/windows-10-xbox-dvr-app-thinks-chrome-is-a-game).

Note that if the name of the application is Main.exe, this checkbox is not visible. If the name of the app is main.exe or anything else, it is visible.

It seems it is stored in the registry : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore\ in the Children and Parents directories. You can try to find your app using the ExeParentDirectory key. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3fbu0x/win_10_game_bardvr_anyone_having_issues/

I don't know if it applies to an executable where Windows decides it is a game (like Main.exe)