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Control privacy settings for your Microsoft account. Microsoft uses your data and preferences to personalize your experiences, send you marketing info, and advertise things you might like.

Use the Xbox mobile app, the Xbox Game Pass app, or the Microsoft Store on PC to remotely install games—so your games are ready when you are.

Learn how to get your Xbox device serviced. Important Send in your device as soon as possible. If you don’t ship your device within 30 days of your request, your service order will be canceled, and the shipping label will no longer be valid.

Under Personalization & advertising, turn on or off the setting for Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favorites, web content, and other browsing data to personalize Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping and news.

A Microsoft account is a personal account required for access to Microsoft’s products and services.

Use slicers to quickly filter data in Excel. 1. A slicer header indicates the category of the items in the slicer. 2. A filtering button that is not selected indicates that the item is not included in the filter.

Learn why you received a notification about unusual activity in your account and what to do next.

Learn how to use Narrator, a screen-reading app built into Windows, with this complete guide and how-to articles.

How OneDrive protects your data. Microsoft engineers administer OneDrive using a Windows PowerShell console that requires two-factor authentication.