Windows 7 Features !

Today, our children are more vulnerable to digital hazards than ever before. Especially with the availability of versatile search engines, easy-to-use social-networking sites, free services and tools for uploading/downloading photographs and videos, the internet is awash with content that is inappropriate for kids, and full of individuals that parents want to prevent from communicating with their children.

The internet is evolving a lot faster than Microsoft can update the Windows OS. For example, when Windows Vista was released Social Networking sites was barely known. Now they have a thriving web presence. Microsoft is trying to keep up by enhancing parental control in Windows 7. For this reason it has been moved into Windows Live.

Activity viewing and web filtering capabilities can be more effectively handled by Windows Live or a 3rd party solution that ensures reliable web-based implementation of this functionality. For example, Family Safety, a free application found in Windows Live, offers web content filtering, activity monitoring, and file downloads restrictions.

In Windows 7, the Parental Controls feature was modified to permit its features to be installed on your system and fully replace or augment the default parental controls. Windows Vista permitted partial substitution of Windows Parental Controls; in short, the web filter could be replaced with a 3^rd party application. However, in Windows 7, other than the web filter components, the whole Windows 7 Parental Controls GUI is replaceable with 3rd party providers. The basic filtering of offline content is still implemented by Windows Parental Controls feature. It is now possible for a 3rd party application to offer a uniform user experience that seamlessly integrates existing Parental Controls features with those introduced by the 3rd party application.

When a Windows Vista computer (with its parental control enabled) is upgraded to Windows 7, the administrator will be warned that activity reporting and web filtering functionality are not included in Windows 7 Parental Controls. In Windows Vista, the Parental Controls settings (including activity logs and web filtering) stay unchanged when the computer is upgraded to Windows 7. Although activity logs information and web filtering settings are not used by Parental controls in Windows 7, their preservation allows 3rd party application to honor those settings.

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