Parents and guardians often ask us about how someone in their Xbox family group could be capable of cheating. While not always done with malicious intent, any player might willingly join game lobbies or partner with a friend to get modifications (“mods”) for their profile or to gain a competitive advantage in-game.

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Note: Microsoft is updating the way we ask for permission to use your voice data to improve Microsoft products that use our speech recognition technology.This may impact the data you see on your privacy dashboard. To learn more about these changes, see How does Microsoft protect my privacy while improving its speech recognition technology?

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To protect players, Xbox works hard to monitor cases of verbal and nonverbal harassment on the network. Whether meant as a joke, or intentionally used to harass another player, the words we use can be harmful to others.

You can connect your controller to a Windows device by using a USB cable, the Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows, or Bluetooth. Some Windows devices also come with Xbox Wireless functionality built in so that you can connect a controller directly without an adapter.

In the Settings app on your Windows device, select Network & internet > Proxy. Under Manual proxy setup, next to Use a proxy server, select Set up.. In the Edit proxy server dialog box, do the following:. Turn on Use a proxy server.. In the Proxy IP address and Port boxes, enter the proxy server name or IP address and port (optional) in the respective boxes.

If you want to track your Microsoft Rewards order after you redeem an award, sign in to the Rewards page with your Microsoft account, select Redeem and then select Order history.On the Order history page, find your order and then look under Status.. Open Rewards dashboard

If you know your password, but have lost access to some, but not all, of your security info: Sign in to the Advanced security options page of your Microsoft account. Sign in. Select Add a new way to sign in or verify then choose how you would like to receive security codes.. We'll send a security code to the new number or email to confirm.

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