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Windows Experience Pack for Windows 7 and Windows Live Essentials

Microsoft delivered the Windows Experience Pack, a free download for Windows 7 and Windows Live Essentials users a few days back. Windows Experience Pack is essentially a free utility which customizes your PC and online experience.

With the Windows Experience Pack, you are able create an alter-ego of yourself in a specific destination – a beach, mountain, safari, or city. When you create your alter-ego, you create a fully customized avatar for that destination that becomes a part of a Windows Live Messenger and Windows 7 theme for your PC. You’ll also be able to download a .jpg image of your avatar to share, print, or use as your icon on social networks.

For a specific destination you pick, the following Windows Live Messenger elements are created for you to use in Messenger for your alter-ego:

  • 1 static Display Picture
  • Up to 4 Dynamic Display Pictures
  • A Wink
  • 7 new Emoticons
  • A new Messenger Scene

For Windows 7, you are given the choice between 3 desktop backgrounds for your destination and a screensaver featuring multiple photos from your destination.

While the Windows Experience pack was created and is optimized for Windows 7, it can be downloaded and used on PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista too ( there can be a variation in performance and features, though).

You can get Windows Experience Pack by navigating to the webpage available at experience.windows.com

Frankly, as a power user, these add-on’s do not add much value to my computer ( as i am not someone who enjoy’s more of desktop customizations). If you do install the pack, do ensure that you read through the installer during the installation process. Windows Experience Pack has options to make Bing your default search engine and MSN your homepage.

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