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Chapter 1 Pre-Flight Checklist:What to Do Before YouGet Your Windows Phone
previous section for information on the rules for creating this Gamertag and
my suggestions for not getting too immature about it.
Gamer Picture: 3 Microsoft lets you use a small picture to graphically represent
you to others online. There are a number of built-in pictures to choose from,
and if you log on with the Xbox 360 console, there are more available (includ-
ing some for purchase, believe it or not).
Gamer Zone: 3 Microsoft provides four general gamer types from which you can
choose, including Recreation (casual gamers), Family (G-rated content only,
please), Pro (hard core but polite), and Underground (hard core, no rules). I know
you’re dying to know where I fall in this list. You may be surprised to discover its
Recreation. Don’t worry. I’ll still take you down online, given the chance.
Once you create an Xbox Live Gamer Prole, you can visit your Xbox home page,
where you can view information about this prole. (It’s at live.xbox.com if you can’t
gure it out.) Since you’re just starting out, your home page is going to be pretty
bare, as shown in Figure 1-23.
FIgure 1-23: With your Xbox Live Gamer Prole created, it’s time to get online and get
beat up a bit.
There’s a lot more you can do from here: Edit your prole, privacy settings, con-
tact information, and other preferences, add friends, or sign up for an Xbox Live Gold
account. (You are automatically given a Silver account when you create your prole.)
But I examine gaming and the various Xbox Live features thoroughly in Chapter 7. For
now, the important bit is just getting the account set up.
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