You will have to rely on the service's Web filtering functionality to keep away
Nothing to block people from services outside of Windows Live from contacting yourĬhildren.
Remember Note that while Live Family Safety's contact management feature works well, it does In from time to time and intervene when necessary. Your children the freedom to manage their own contacts, but retain the ability to check Live Spaces (blogging), and manage your children's contact list, removing and addingĬontacts as you see fit. Messenger (instant messaging), Windows Live Hotmail (Web-based e-mail), and Windows Specifically, you can control access to Windows Live Windows Live Family Safety's contact management feature enables you to explicitlyĬontrol which contact-driven Windows Live services your children can use and which contacts Media (audio, video, and recorded television) access and logon times. To Windows Vista's activity reporting, however, Windows Live Family Safety lacks theĪbility to monitor webcam and audio usage, game play, file exchanges, SMS messages, Sites visited, instant-message conversations, and e-mails received and sent. When this feature is enabled, your children's Web- and Internet-related activity is recordedĪnd presented to you periodically in report form. If you're really worried about the Web, you can block all Web Now, you can only allow orīlock specific sites. But that's not how it works in Family Safety. In Windows Vista, you could actuallyĬhoose to block vast swathes of objectionable subject matter such as adultĬontent, Web mail, social networking sites, anonymizer sites, and other types of What kind of Web content you'd like to block.
Install it now by visiting the suite's Web page at. If you do not yet have Windows Live Essentials, please Tip Windows Live Family Safety is installed as part of Windows Live Essentials. Take a look at each feature of Windows Live Family Safety in the following sections. As such, it's best used on PCs that are shared between parents and children.
Of Web, e-mail, and instant messaging protections aimed at keeping your children safe
To Windows XP and extends the parental controls that are native to Windows 7 with a variety Windows Live Family Safety is a cloud-based service that offers parental controls Extending Parental Controls with Windows Live Family Safety