With the Xbox Insider Hub, you can participate in the Xbox Insider Program and explore console, game, app previews, and other experiences before they become available to the general public.

Xbox Support offers help for Xbox, Game Pass, and billing questions. Get advice and customer service in the Xbox Support community.

Note For best results, we recommend you always update your console during setup before you attach any additional peripherals, such as Storage Expansion Cards, UBD HDDs, battery charging stations, etc.

The Restrict users to the explicitly permitted list of snap-ins Group Policy setting lets you selectively enable or disable specific Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins. However, before you enable this setting, you must enable the settings in the "Restricted/Permitted snap-ins" folder for MMC snap-ins that you want to use.

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If you need time to modify your workflow to unblock add-ins using one of the methods above, you can choose receive an additional warning for Excel XLL Add-ins that come from untrusted locations after choosing to enable them.

Codecs allow you to play different formats of audio and video files. Media Player supports a wide variety of codecs. Most are included out of the box; some additional codecs can be installed from the Microsoft Store.

Try our Sign-in Helper for quick assistance signing in to your account:

You can view all of your recent work or school account sign-in activity, from the My sign-ins page of the My Account portal. Reviewing your sign-in history helps you to check for unusual activity by helping you to see: If someone is trying to guess your password.

For Xbox Series X|S, we’ve streamlined the Xbox Wireless Controller for comfort, performance, and instant sharing. The controller also works great with Xbox One, PC, and cloud gaming devices.