

This free email client works only with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows Live Mail: The successor to Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

You can also find these monitoring, filtering and blocking options in your security suite (Norton, McAfee, etc.) or in products such as CyberSitter, NetNanny and CyberPatrol.

Click Start, Control Panel, User Accounts, then click "Set up Parental Controls" to see what's available. Some parental control features are already present in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows Live Family Safety: A parental controls program that includes Web site filtering, browser activity logging, "safe-search" filtering for Google, Bing, Yahoo! and other search engines time limits game restrictions based on industry rating systems contact management to prevent children from communicating with unknown parties online and an image filter that blurs images which seem inappropriate.ĭo You Need It? Probably not. Available components in Windows Live Essentials include:
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Windows Live Essentials is a suite of free applications developed by Microsoft, which includes software for parental controls, email handling, cloud storage, instant messaging, video editing, photo management, blogging and more.Įssentials can be downloaded in one archive package from the Windows Live Essentials website.īut are these tools really "essential" for all users? Read my description of each one below, then you can select which components to install, which to skip, and other alternatives to consider.
