CTD after Xbox and gaming services today

W11 uodated the Xbox app and gaming services this morning. The Sim hasn’t started for very long since this and crashes without error message. MSFS stayed alive long enough this afternoon to receive an update which made the menu system much faster but CTD before I could Do very much.

Not sure if the updates were at fault but the sim ran for hours yesterday without any issue. Today it won’t load the start screen.

Here is the checklist for the issue.
A lot of folks have had success with the Uninstall and Reinstall via powershell item.

Possible solution

1 Open microsoft store app
Click profile and click app settings
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Turn off App updates

2 Open Xbox insider hub app
Click Previews
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Scroll down
Under “Joined” click Windows Gaming
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Click Manage

Leave preview

Click continue
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Be patient :wink:

3 Restart PC

4 In windows seacrh bar type
powershell

Right-click on powershell and select run as administrator
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Copy/paste the following command into powershell window (right-click to paste into powershell window)

Remove-Item -Path “HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServices” -Recurse

press enter

Copy/paste the following command into powershell window (right-click to paste into powershell window)

Remove-Item -Path “HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamingServicesNet” -Recurse

press enter

Copy/paste the following command into powershell window (right-click to paste into powershell window)

get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers

press enter

5 Restart PC

6 Run powershell as administrator.
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Copy/paste the following command into powershell window
(right-click to paste into powershell window)

start ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=9MWPM2CQNLHN

Click Install

Restart PC

Important // Right-click msfs icon and select run as administrator.
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