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Delete That Old Gamer Profile on Your Xbox 360

When I first got y 360 and hooked it up, the network jack on the wall behind the TV wasn't cully punched down so I didn't have the means to connect it to Live from the get go.  I just hooked it up to my TV and started playing.  I created a local Gamer Profile and began to play my games.

Once everything was ready to get online, I realized that my local Gamer Profile was no good.  The process of creating an online gamer tag also makes you create a new local profile.  At least, at the time I was unaware that you could edit your existing gamer profile and connect it to a Live account. Oh well. 

So, now I had 2 profiles on my console. I figured it should be no problem to remove the old profile, right? Wrong! Ok, it's possible, and when you know how and where to look, it's not that hard.  But knowing isn't the easiest thing.  I finally figured it out and thought I should share this with the rest of the world.  Just in case someone else feels the desire to remove a profile.

Here's the steps; Select the System tab from the Dashboard and then select the memory option.  Highlight your hard disk - for most, this will already be highlighted - and select it. Then you'll want to scroll down to Gamer Profiles and select it.  You'll then be presented with a list of profiles on your console.  Select the offending profile and delete it.  Rinse and repeat as required.

Now that I have that fixed, I just need to figure out how to correct my billing information so that it doesn't think I'm living in the US.  Tongue Tied

Published Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:07 PM by Mike Temporale
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MrGTI said:

That's hard to find. I wonder how many other people are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to remove their old profiles.
July 16, 2007 2:49 PM
 

sam said:

thnx a mill but if u want to change where u live u ned to make a hotmail account and tell THAT that u live somewheres else all u need to do for the area code is search for a dental office in toronto for instance and find contact us and look at there area code
August 4, 2007 12:42 PM
 

Mike Temporale said:

@ Sam - Thanks for the tip, but I don't think you fully understand my problem in regards to country.  You can read all the gory details in this post --> http://mike.temporale.com/archive/2007/07/21/535.aspx  Wink
August 14, 2007 2:11 PM
 

vbrtr1 said:

ohhhhh my goodness. thank you. i just bought my xbox 360 last night, and i tried hooking everything up at about .. 1AM .. i was so tired, and was just trying to see what i had to do, and had one of my profiles named 'Player' .. because  i had not deleted it, i figured i could just delete it later. but i wasn't sure how when i actually wanted to delete it... THANK YOU!
October 19, 2007 2:43 PM
 

Dan said:

I appreciate the time saving tip, pal.
October 22, 2007 12:36 AM
 

Pipegod said:

Thanks man! Tell Uncle Bill to smarten up!!!
October 25, 2007 12:13 AM
 

Ken said:

Thanks, man. I got my 360 refurbished off ebay, and this was driving me nuts -- there were like four on there.
October 27, 2007 11:38 AM
 

BlissfulDarkness said:

FYI, you cannot change the billing region on your Live account. Impossible, no way to change it.

You'll need to create a new Gamertag/Windows Live ID with the correct region set.

Sorry.
December 14, 2007 8:20 PM
 

Mike Temporale said:

@BlissfulDarkness - It's not like I'm asking to run a PS3 game on the Xbox.  Changing the country code is nothing more than changing a setting in the database.  If it can be changed for your hotmail/live account then it SHOULD be changed for your xbox account.  For some reason the xbox team doesn't see the value in adding in this functionality.  There's nothing impossible in changing the country code.  
December 16, 2007 1:01 PM
 

Keahi said:

Yes, use the Microsoft Live ID account settings to find the change secret question for the account ID. In this account area you will find a place to change the country of the account. Take Care
December 20, 2007 12:01 PM
 

Keahi said:

By the way.....
Thank You!!!
I did the same thing you did trying to get my new Xbox 360 on Live.
I ran into the same problems you mentioned with the extra gamer profile.
Thanks for helping me correct the problem
December 20, 2007 12:04 PM
 

some guy said:

dude a guy that i hate decided to load up my 360 w a whole bunch o crap profiles so that helps so much
January 10, 2008 2:58 PM
 

il0vetetris said:

thank you so much,
i would have never found it.
February 9, 2008 10:43 PM
 

ZonDjay said:

Thanks for this... Really helpful...
February 14, 2008 7:51 AM
 

The0saint said:

Yo u just helped me out alot bub. Thanks...
March 25, 2008 8:01 PM
 

chris said:

thanks helped!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 7, 2008 2:23 PM

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