User Accounts and Family Safety

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.

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 Setup Parental Controls in Windows Media Center

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 19:35 — Florina

In our previous article on How to Setup Parental Controls, I've mentioned that Windows Media Center also offers a series of parental controls. You can define an access code for restricted content and parental controls menus, with which you can block TV programs and movies that exceed a maximum rating that you can set, protecting your children of inappropriate content. In this tutorial I will show you how to do all of these, starting with where to find Windows Media Center and sharing everything you need to know about how to filter the content viewed by your children.

How to Setup Parental Controls

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 17:29 — Florina

Parental Controls is a feature which was first introduced by Windows Vista. The aim of this tool is to give parents a way to manage the computing activity of their children. With Parental Controls, parents can easily define when children are allowed to use the PC, which games they play, which applications they can use and also block sites with adult content. This tool has been kept in Windows 7 and it was also changed by Microsoft in a couple of ways. In this article I will show how to enable Parental Controls and how to set access rules for your children.

How to Create or Delete User Accounts

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 21:07 — Florina

Building on our article about How to Edit User Accounts, I will try to complete this subject with a tutorial about creating and deleting user accounts and how to turn on or off the guest account in Windows 7. I'll also explain what is the difference between the available account types and help you understand the usage scenarios and limitations for all available options.