

You could also set preferences to allow or block particular websites. How To Allow Or Block A Particular Website You can also choose Custom category and apply the filter by checking various given options. If you want your child not to browse adult content then you can choose the “Basic” category. These ratings are produced by the Family Safety team which reviews thousands of websites and assigns categories to them. You can filter the websites by ratings (Strict, basic and custom). Note the Web filtering tab on the left pane. It also shows programs used by your kids between given dates. All the reports are divided into three tabs – “Web activity, Other internet activity and computer activity (not shown in screenshot) ”. You can set the dates between which you want to see the activities and click on “Show Activity” button. On Family safety page which is opened in your browser, you can click on “View activity report” to view all the activities of your kid.īelow is the screenshot of activity reports. It will redirect you to your live account family safety page on Internet explorer browser. In the next step, click on link given at the bottom. Select the account you want to monitor by checking the box next to it. Now enter your Hotmail / Windows Live login credentials (If you don’t have Windows Live ID then click on the sign up link and create one).Īfter successful login, it will show you all the user accounts.

Open it and you’ll get a screen as shown in screenshot below. Windows Live Family Safety is a free tool by Microsoft that lets you setup web filter and monitor your kids activity on the internet with the help of a few settings.įirst of all download and install Windows Live Family Safety on your computer. If you want web content filter in your Windows 7 PC then you need to install Windows Live Family Safety. If you take a look on the parental controls feature in Windows 7, you’ll notice that it doesn’t have web content filter and activity reports which is there in some editions of Vista. We published a detailed parental controls guide recently.
