gamebar.exe

by Microsoft
Operating System

Summary

Xbox Game Bar - Windows gaming overlay for screenshots, recording, and performance monitoring.

gamebar.exe is the 653rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 6,413 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.420.8043.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.

653rd
most commonly executed Windows program
6,413
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.420.8043.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe7.91%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.420.11102.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe6.34%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.220.4292.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe5.5%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_3.38.25003.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe5.12%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.721.12013.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe4.81%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.320.6242.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe4.45%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.621.4222.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.97%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.721.9022.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.55%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.822.6271.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.41%
  • C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay_5.721.6282.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe3.21%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 7e89056173c3d6b868584044573e389a262be40429fa7ee875c7b8f0b94cb0fd8.3%
  • 2c23140de1113ffb65f945e1d10d9d28095603c478179c15e068665a3a78c11f6.65%
  • 39574049081e7e23a3ce41c63b4ee5c13cfe39f68baf6999a0a75e1093726db25.77%
  • ab32aec1086fa9500abd805241624874747ef036e19af2fde64c23c501f85f275.37%
  • 97be8d4ea9a906f8895f88d56cf8b8c598ebee61861bfc8dd67a666dc93aff455.05%
  • 99b3e730815292f878c2ad4663d1c23a036ba0058574258534fe12958c2ac7b94.67%
  • 3c43e3b3b3fb5b1e0382c12aa235e0e18a887c1222e4574a66622c1509f171c54.17%
  • f18dbee8fbd655df70fd99942590ae0c2d3f7441b85e9d876513ecf24c02ccd73.72%
  • 7a4ef0d714299628ac2c2d85a07340e8df0e5cd7cef6e7542db9e140a54924c83.58%
  • 20bafee3f5f2905d060477150044833973ae95ff4ad2030bb06aaead27838bcd3.37%

Process Ancestry

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.