Xbox App reappearing on every reboot on Windows 10/11

In these days I trying an MSI Prestige 15 and I'm writing this tutorial because I noticed a small little problem that make me mad and I want to share it. I unpinned  several times the XBOX app from the Taskbar but every time I restart my laptop I find the shortcut again there. So with the steps that you will find below you can resolve this stupid little problem and remove definitely the app from the Windows 10/11 Taskbar.

Follow this steps:

1. open run and past this URL:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\LayoutModification.xml

2. open with the notepad the file LayoutModification.xml and delete that string:

 <taskbar:UWA AppUserModelID="Microsoft.GamingApp_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Microsoft.Xbox.App" />

3. Save the edited file on the Desktop and replace the old one contained at the folder of the step 1. Before these make a backup of the old file to restore it if you will mess something in the editing of the file.

4. Remove the app from the taskbar for the last time and reboot you pc to check that the app will not show itself again on every reboot of Windows.

With this tutorial you can delete every other icon that reappears (after reboot) even if you already deleted it. To do it simply remove everything between <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout> and </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>. You will find a string (to delete) that looks like this <taskbar:TaskbarPinList> through </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>

 

The source that I used to solve my problem were these:

randomly learned 

Xbox app will not stay off of Taskbar

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