Download Xbox movies with Xbox powered off

by Tom Merritt

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When I first got an Xbox 360, I programmed my universal remote *not* to turn the Xbox off when I was done. I was downloading a lot of games and TV shows from Xbox Live and didn't want to interrupt the downloads.

I mentioned this on Buzz out Loud and a fistful of people wrote in and called to remind me that Microsoft fixed that issue a while back. Here's how to activate background downloads.

Go to My Xbox

Choose system settings

Then console settings

And go down and select shutdown

Then select Background Downloads

And select Enable.

Now when you turn off your Xbox, downloads will continue in a low-power mode until the download completes.

Hope that makes your downloading on the Xbox a little more convenient.

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Tags:: Xbox,; downloads,; games,; power

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by rich12313 June 20, 2009 5:20 AM PDT: mine still makes the same amount of noise as if it were still on.; Reply to this comment

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