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When trying to register your console, you will need your serial number, but if you don't have the box, you'll want to make sure that you know where else you can look to find the number.

When looking for the serial number for your Xbox 360, you can check the sticker on the back of the console, but if that has fallen off, don't worry because you can find the serial number in one other place.

You want to go into your dashboard. Then all the way to the right of the system blade so that you can select 'Console Settings.' At that point, you want to scroll all the way down to the system information, and you'll find the serial number for your console.


Once you’ve found the serial number, it may be easy if you write it down, so that you don’t have to go through any of these steps the next time you need it.




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Microsoft Points

February 10th 2009 23:06
If you have an Xbox 360, then you know how essential it is to have a LIVE account and have Microsoft Points to your account... Well, it's not essential, but it is a great asset that Microsoft included with the Xbox 360.

Unlike the online areas for Wii and PlayStation 3, the Xbox LIVE seems to be so much more advanced than the others. There are more options and features that you can download, and you can use the Microsoft Points for the marketplace as well as the Zune store.

You can purchase Microsoft Points online and at select retail stores that offer the Microsoft Point Cards. When you purchase your points, you want to make sure that you know how to redeem them.


Oh, and if you get or purchase a Microsoft Points Card, once you have put the points on your LIVE account, the card is then useless. You cannot put more points on the card or use it for any other gaming purposes.

Find out how to purchase and redeem your Microsoft Points:
Buy and Redeem Microsoft Points



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Xbox Automatic Shut Down Feature

November 26th 2008 02:21
Because sometimes heavy gamers will play at all hours of the night, it can be hard to remember to brush your teeth at 4 in the morning, much less turn off your Xbox. This is why there is an auto shut off feature that you can enable so that you aren't using loads of extra power that you don't have to use while you're not even playing your games. The auto shut-off feature will turn off your xBox after 6 hours of idle time, which gives you plenty of time to resume playing after a quick nap, but for longer periods away from your xbox, you'll save power with the auto shut-off feature enabled.

For instructions on how to enable the automatic shut down feature, you'll want to check out Set up Auto Shut-Off for xBox 360.




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No Portable Xbox

November 7th 2008 05:17


So, you've go portable Playstations (Portable Sony Playstation - PSP) and the Nintendo DS, but Microsoft doesn't have its own handheld game console. I mean, it only makes since that one of the leading gaming consoles, the Xbox has a handheld version to compete with the other handheld consoles...

Well, unfortunately Stephen McGill, the head of gaming and entertain for the Xbox UK division says:

No thank you, we’ve got plenty going on with the 360. We don’t want to get distracted by going into the handheld market.

Sucks... I mean, the Xbox is one of the better gaming consoles, if you ask me, so it's only logical that they have a handheld game to compete. But, it looks like Microsoft isn't going to start creating a handheld game any time soon.

The only thing that we gamers can do at this point is to keep asking and begging for a handheld version, but I wouldn't keep your hopes up too high.



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