Tutorials

Manage Your Child's Contact List With Windows Live Family Safety

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 19:21 — Florina

If your child uses Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Spaces, with Windows Live Family Safety you can manage the list of people he/she gets in contact with via these services. For example, you can see the entire list of contacts and add or remove people from it. Your child can also make requests for adding new contacts or accessing websites which are currently blocked. You will receive these requests and you will be able to allow or deny them. While this sounds a bit controlling, these features can help you to make sure that your child is not in contact with unwanted strangers over the Internet. If you want to know more about this subject, click on read more.

The Biggest Library of Windows 7 Shortcuts

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:43 — Ciprian

For those of you who are not yet familiar with all the tools available in Windows 7 and those who have their desktop filled with useful shortcuts, we've created the biggest library of Windows 7 shortcuts. You've got almost everything you need and we are very willing to expand it. For starters, we've created 99 Windows 7 shortcuts which you can download and use. They are all created in such a way that they work on every Windows 7 computer. Also, if you want a shortcut which is not in our collection, leave a comment and we will try to add it to the package.

Collection updated with 10 additional shortcuts. Total number of shortcuts 109.

How to Use Playback Enhancements in Windows Media Player 12

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 21:49 — Jack Busch

Windows Media Player 12 is designed to replicate many of the features you'd see on a physical home stereo or theater system, complete with a mixer, EQ and other audio tweaking devices. The software equivalent of the myriad knobs and sliders you'd see on high end stereo equipment are called playback enhancements on Windows Media Player 12 and they are even easier to use than their physical counterparts. Using the built-in playback enhancements for Windows Media Player 12, you can adjust and optimize audio and video on the fly to best suit your situation, speaker system and tastes. In this tutorial, we'll cover how to use all of the playback enhancements in Windows Media Player 12 as well as explain a bit about how they work.

Get Activity Reports for Your Children With Windows Live Family Safety

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:55 — Florina

Windows Live Family Safety can record & report the activity that your child has on his/her computer both online and offline. In this tutorial I will show how you can see the websites he/she has visited and block them if you think they are inappropriate. Then, I'll show how to view statistics like: how many times you child has logged in and amount of hours spent at the computer, the list of programs ran, the files downloaded and the games played.

Web Filtering With Windows Live Family Safety

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 12:26 — Florina

We continue our previous article on Enhancing Parental Controls with Windows Live Family Safety with a tutorial on how to setup web filtering. Web filtering means setting up what kind of pages you allow your children to visit. With Windows Live Family Safety you are able to select between pre-defined sets of settings but you may also add your custom exceptions. In this tutorial I will show everything you can do on the web filtering side.

Enhance Parental Controls with Windows Live Family Safety

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 10:29 — Florina

Windows 7 allows you to integrate parental control functions from other software companies (called service providers) with it's own. While many security solutions providers offer parental control applications, one of the best solutions comes from Microsoft and it is called Windows Live Family Safety. This application can be installed on top of your Windows 7 installation and allows you to filter web sites, access activity reports which tell you what your children are doing on their computers, administrate the contacts with whom they communicate, allows children to ask permissions to access different web sites that you have already blocked, etc. In this article I will show you where to download Windows Live Family Safety from, how to enable it and manage the user accounts which you want to monitor.

How to Change the Default Playback & Recording Audio Device

Sat, 02/27/2010 - 22:13 — Florin

Sound is a very important part of our computing experience. We listen to music, do voice chat, watch movies, play games, record sound, etc. In this article I will talk about two important topics related to sound in Windows 7: how to change the default playback audio & recording devices which are used by your installed applications. I will be sharing some interesting & useful tips about this, including how to troubleshoot certain problems.