Epic Games Launcher – Why It Says ‘Are You Sure You Want to Close the Epic Games Launcher? Your Installations Will Be Canceled’ When Trying to Close It

Yes, you can close the Epic Games Launcher without having to worry that you'd have to download everything from the start.

All downloads will be paused once you exit the launcher. When you launch it later, you will have the option for resuming the download.

Epic Games will tell you "It cannot be done they are permanently linked." Politically they are correct. Technically they are wrong. The reason is something to do with their policies. I did not try to prove them wrong politically.

Technically all I did was (on EpicG) swap my sons username and email address to my username and email address and vice versa. Luckily we had the same games purchased on our accounts, only thing my son got was a friend on his account.

Now this is really only possible if they are new accounts like ours were, most gamers will have already bought games on Epic and on Xbox and then their child comes along, but if that is the case you probably would have already learned this lesson prior.

The other option is scrap the epic games acount and start again.