Windows 10 game dvr thinks Everything is a game

[The Cookie King]

When I open it, or change its size, windows 10 shows 'starting microphone recording for this game' in the top right. I did not set it to think this was a game. If I did that I could do a simple win+g, then unclick the setting 'remember this as a game'. That setting is not there since I did not set this.

[void]

For whatever reason, Microsoft decided that a file with the filename "Everything.exe" is a game.

Please try renaming your Everything.exe to something else, eg: Everything.is.not.a.game.exe

Please note you will need to reset the general options after renaming your Everything:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options
• Click the General Tab.
• Uncheck Start Everything on system startup.
• Uncheck Everything Service.
• Uncheck Show Search Everything folder context menu item.
• Uncheck Show Start menu shortcuts.
• Uncheck Show Desktop shortcuts.
• Uncheck Show Quick Launch shortcuts.
• Uncheck URL protocol.
• Uncheck EFU file association.
• Click OK.
• Cancel any message about access denied / choose NTFS indexing options.
• Complete exit Everything (right click the Everything system tray icon and click Exit).
• Rename your C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe
• Restart Everything.
• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options
• Click the General Tab.
• Optionally check Start Everything on system startup.
• Optionally check Everything Service.
• Optionally check Show Search Everything folder context menu item.
• Optionally check Show Start menu shortcuts.
• Optionally check Show Desktop shortcuts.
• Optionally check Show Quick Launch shortcuts.
• Optionally check URL protocol.
• Optionally check EFU file association.
• Click OK.

Disabling the game bar for reference:
viewtopic.php?t=6239

[x99config]

Hi care to explain what or how exactly this is done? Like i know for instance, certain nvidia utilities can set certain graphics flags depending on the name of the executable and so on, so is it somewhere hardcoded in windows 10 that Everything.exe is a game or is this actually a easter egg that windows 10 is recording everything u are doing?

[void]

It is hard coded in Windows 10, that a file with the file name Everything.exe is a game.

[NotNull]

And here is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_(video_game)

[x99config]

Aha that clears things up. Thanks for the help