User Manual
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Windows Live ID: One Online ID to Rule Them All
Initial Windows Live ID Configuration
On that initial Windows Live Home page, you should see a link titled Edit Your Prole.
Click that, or, if it’s not present, click the Prole link in the upper right of the page.
Either way, you’ll be brought to your Windows Live Prole page, where you can congure
your new ID. This is shown in Figure 1-6.
FIgure 1-6: Windows Live Prole.
TIP You can return to your Windows Live Prole at any time by visiting
profile.live.com.
If this is the very rst time you’ve visited this page, there will be a handy—and
important—box with the title "Welcome to your new prole." Here, you can very easily
congure your privacy settings for Windows Live. You can of course change this later,
but I recommend taking a moment to get this right before proceeding. Fortunately,
Microsoft has made it simple with just three basic choices:
Public: 3 Everything you do—what Microsoft calls your activities—is available
publicly on Windows Live, even to those people with whom you have no formal
relationship. Furthermore, anyone can nd you by searching on Windows Live
and can view your prole. I’m not a privacy nut, but I don’t recommend choosing
this setting, unless, of course, you’re a reverse voyeur. (They’re out there.)
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