How can I stop GameInput and Gaming Services from running forever?
How can I stop GameInput and Gaming Services from running forever?
There is a Windows XBox game driver called gameflt.sys that sometimes messes up things for people. If you are sure you aren't connecting to an Xbox and it's probably not, you can try uninstalling this file. I can't say if this fixes your GameInput issues, but since we don't have any proof of a problem, this is my top idea: because gameflt.sys has been known to cause trouble on some systems. If you want to try this step, the first thing we need to do is check that gameflt.sys is actually running. To do that, open an elevated command prompt and type in a specific command...
It could happen that something else is causing the problem and just uses MSGI, but I don't lose anything by not having it on my computer since less background bloatware is always good for Windows. What I know is if I just uninstall it, even if I keep the gaming services running, all my issues go away. If the real cause is something else or whatever might be wrong, then I'd have to use a computer that could freeze at any moment. My only choice would be to hard restart it, wait for a BSOD, or hope it fixes itself. I can't afford that. So there isn't much debugging or troubleshooting outside of what can be exported from the system.
I've already tried sfc and dism before, even when my computer was acting all weird like this unreliable mess. Neither one worked to find what's wrong. It is a legal copy of Windows Pro that I'm pretty sure wasn't changed from version 10 to 11. My motherboard was also swapped out, so everything was reinstalled manually with the manufacturer's site and my BIOS was updated, but all that happened two weeks ago. These changes were months or even years old back then, which makes me think they aren't the cause (though who knows for sure), maybe a bad update broke something, but why doesn't sfc find it? Today I got a big bunch of updates from win updates and we'll see what happens in the last part.
The exact same thing happened as you did before, right at the start with no problems. Then later on, it started doing it over and over again until the whole computer locked up. Every time I tried to fix it by resetting, that was how long it stayed like that forever. At one point, when it first looked up at 8:47 am, it successfully reconfigured itself fine. But then at 12:31 pm, it did it again and the computer completely stopped working, no blue screen just... nothing. That kept happening every single day. Now I just uninstall it as soon as I see it download itself again, and all my problems are gone!