
Repeat the same steps to Terminate, Repair, and Reset the Microsoft Store app. Note that using the Repair and Reset functions won’t delete your downloaded games. Scroll down, and click on “Terminate” to completely close the app, then on “Repair”, and finally on “Reset.”

Select the Xbox app and then click on “Advanced options.” Press on Search This List and type “xbox.” Press on the Windows Search Bar and type “Apps & features.” Repair and Reset the Xbox and Microsoft Store apps Here, in this article, we’ve mentioned some possible workarounds to help you speed up Steam’s downloading. If you’re facing the same issue with Steam, we suggest reading this article till the end, as this can bring some relief to you. Overall, it seems that during tier 1 games releases (Forza Horizon 5 and Age of Empires 4, for example) the Microsoft servers get overloaded and the download speed decreases almost anywhere.īe aware that the Xbox App reports your speed back in MB/s while the Microsoft Store reports back in Mb/s. According to them, the Steam app takes much longer to download games, even the smallest ones on the platform.


We don’t know if this behavior is caused by the software used by the two apps, or because they have access to different servers. In several cases, the users achieved a higher download speed when using the Microsoft Store. Open the Microsoft Store, find and resume the game download. Start the download inside the Xbox App, pause it, and close the app.
