App Center screen appears when logging into a computer with a gigabyte motherboard

March 24, 2023

Recently I joined a domain on my Windows 11 Pro PC which has a Gigabyte AC520I motherboard

Since then everytime I logged in I saw an “App center” dialog box I couldn’t close it from the GUI but could if I opened Task Manager and end tasked the “Gigabyte Download Assistant”. However it would re-appear.

Based on this reddit thread:

Comment from discussion abqnm666’s comment from discussion "Unresponsive ‘App Center’ window in the middle of screen every time the system reboots?".

You need to go into the BIOS (By pressing the Delete key when first booting) and change to Advanced Mode. Then choose Settings => IO Ports => App Center Download & Install and toggle it to “Disabled”