Looking for web filtering and activity reports in Windows Parental Controls?

The Family Safety Filter monitors your child’s computer activity and filters the content they can see on the web. It needs to be installed and set up on each computer your children use. To see if you already have the Family Safety Filter installed on your computer, click the Start button, type Windows Live Family Safety in the search box, and see if it appears in the results. If not, you can download and install Windows Live Family Safety — a part of Windows Live Essentials — for free.

In the Family Safety Filter, you choose which Windows accounts you want to monitor.

Once you’ve installed the Family Safety Filter, you can use the Family Safety website to do the following, and more:

• Get detailed activity reports. See what websites each of your kids visited (or tried to visit), what programs they used, and how much time they spent on the computer.

  See what websites your kids visited, or tried to visit.
• Choose your children’s web filtering level. When you first set up the Family Safety Filter, your child's web filtering level is automatically set to basic. You can change it to strict or custom, and block or allow specific webpages or websites.

  Instead of a website with inappropriate content, your child will see this webpage where they can ask permission to see the website.

• Turn on contact management. You can decide who your kids can talk to in Windows Live Spaces, Messenger, and Hotmail. Just sign in to the Family Safety website to approve or reject each new contact.

  Choose who your kids can talk to on Windows Live.