The LIVE Guide is a launch pad to your gamer profile and gamer community. It gives you instant access to your friends, messaging, achievements, and personal settings. To access the LIVE Guide, press the Home key on your keyboard.
The six key areas of the LIVE Guide are:
- Gamer card: Displays your gamertag, gamer picture, and stats. Select your gamer card to go to your gamer profile, where you'll find these options: View Games, Edit Gamer Profile, View Rep, and Account Management.
- Messages: Exchange messages with members of Games for Windows - LIVE and Xbox LIVE (online only).
- Friends: Check out your friends list (online only).
- Players: View the gamertags of last 50 people you've played with (online only).
- Private Chat: Initiate one-on-one voice chat with another player (online only).
- Settings, which include options for:
- Online Status – how you appear to other players while you're online
- Voice – recording and playback device
- Notifications – turn notifications on and off
- Change Guide Key – change the key that opens the Guide
- Customer Experience – join the Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Network Information – information about your network settings
- Version Information – information about your version of Games for Windows – LIVE
- Join LIVE – if you are signed into an offline profile, this allows you to create an online profile
The LIVE Guide will notify you when your friends are online, when a friend has extended a game request, and when you've received a message or an invitation to chat.
Just want to focus on your game? Select Notifications and tell the LIVE Guide not to intrude. It's all up to you.
