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1. Windows live family safety keeps popping up how to#
2. Windows live family safety keeps popping up windows 8.1#
3. Windows live family safety keeps popping up license#

If you already have a Microsoft account, you can sign into Family Safety and if you do not have one, you can create one in a few minutes.

Windows live family safety keeps popping up windows 8.1#

Most Windows 8.1 users will probably already be well acquainted with Microsoft accounts, and we’ve covered them previously. If you’re a Windows user, we definitely recommend you have a Microsoft account so you can access and use their services, but if you plan on using Family Safety, then you have to have one. What’s Microsoft account? It allows you to access various Microsoft services, such as Word, Excel, OneDrive, and more. If you don’t have a Microsoft account, then you will need to click “sign up.” Microsoft Account?

Okay, so now we can sign into Family Safety with our Microsoft account.

Windows live family safety keeps popping up license#

When you now open Parental Controls, it will open the Windows Essentials end user license agreement, which can read through (if you want) and then click “Agree” when you’re ready to proceed. Once Windows Essentials is installed, click “Close” and then open the Control Panel. We hope that if you’re a parent and your kids are using Windows-based PCs, by the time you finish you’ll probably wonder how you ever got along without it. Microsoft Family Safety hooks directly into the Parental Controls and Family Safety control panels on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, respectively. You can use it with any computer running an appropriate version of Windows. It ticks off all the boxes on the parental controls wishlist and, best of all, it’s completely free to use.

The Family Safety parental controls suite is comprehensive, and it works very well because Microsoft has had plenty of time to get things right. That translates to a lot of parents, and a lot of kids getting away with who knows what. The only drawback is you have to be using Windows, which is okay because Windows 7 and Windows 8.x are installed on over half of all personal computers.

Windows live family safety keeps popping up how to#

As a parent, you have plenty to worry about what your kids are doing on their computers shouldn’t be one of them. Today, well show you how to lock down your curiosity-prone kids and really take control of your home network with Microsoft Family Safety.įamily Safety imbues your Windows account with a veritable cornucopia of monitoring and filtering tools that allow you to put up a virtual wall that you can exploit to monitor and filter app, game, and web activity.