Weird looking virtual/fake drives added by MSFS

I noticed that too and a lot of times I have disks that where suprise removed (reported by the windows Event Viewer) recently. btw. I don`t have a physical drive 4 and this is not an USB flash Drive etc.

my only games that I bought at the WIndows Store are Minecraft and Flight Simulator 2020.

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You can even find in the device manager at “disk drives” sometimes those Virtual Drives that are created XVD (Xbox Virtual Disk).
If you can`t see them, click on view-> show hidden devices

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There is also a new Gaming Service app, Microsoft.GamingServices app, that installs two drivers; xvdd.sys = XVD Disk Driver (Microsoft Gaming Filesystem Driver) gameflt.sys = Gaming Filter (Microsoft Gaming Install Filter Driver).

I`ll already tried to delete this gaming service app and i was successful doing so, but Flight SImulator will ask you to install it again when starting or you cant play.

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