
It points out that children shouldn’t have accounts with administrator privileges and recommends that you add passwords where there are none. Once installed and running, Family Safety allows you to select which of the computer user accounts you want to monitor. In the end, we had to create a new Windows Live ID from scratch, which was annoying.


Although this dialogue pointed us in the direction of a web link where we could atone for this, we were still unable to specifically accept the terms. When we first tried to run Family Safety, signing in using a long-standing Windows Live ID, we were presented with a rather brusque message informing us that we hadn't reviewed or accepted the Windows Live terms of use. During setup you can choose which – if any – of the other Live Essentials packages that you want to install. Microsoft's Family Safety comes bundled with the corporation's Windows Live Essentials suite, which contains other free software that might be useful, such as Windows Live Mail and Writer.
