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Tony, why are you letting a friend use IE?

Also, I believe that all add-in toolbars are bad because you can't control what they are doing. The Google Toolbar communicates unknown information to Google, for instance.

And the toolbars increase browser load time, as well as taking up valuable screen real estate.

And, frankly, I've never seen one that added more than one or two useful features -- most of what they add is just promotion of their services.

But, again, why aren't you telling friends to use a proper browers, like FireFox?

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David Fenton Associates

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its a suicidal program iv been trying to get rid of it for about 2 months now and still no good. iv deleted all i could and it keeps popping up from nowhere.

I hate the widow live family safty! I can't disable it because I can't find it under anything.  It won't let me (the parent) see any site that I don't have to ask myself for permission.  Qwest can't help because they don't know anything about the program and msn can't help because I got it through Qwest. The online support keeps telling me the same thing, to unistall the program.  Great if I could find it I would.  What a pain in the neck.

Boy I'm glad we never gave you our business.

Because you wouldn't even advise your friend to use a decent web browser.

Firefox and Opera are both way better - more secure, take up less system resources, more user friendly.

You should know this.

who know how to uninstall the window family safety?

im so bothering about this problem...:(

your stupid family safety filter sucks !.

its very troublesome..

i dont wish to used it again..

Ok my Father inlaw got in the WLFSF mess. He has no clue. I try deletting all th Window Live files, Tried the service.msc. still the internet is blocked any suggestions?

Way to uninstall Family Safety Filter:

Control Panel → Programs and Features → Windows Live Essentials → Uninstall/Change → Uninstall → Uncheck the Family Safety Filter item → Continue → Done.

Note: These Operations are under Windows 7, maybe different under Vista.

Thanks - Eric you should change your name to Lifesaver - works for Vista too!

For Vista users: (no big difference)

Control Panel → Programs → Programs and Features → Windows Live Essentials → Uninstall/Change → Uninstall → Uncheck the Family Safety Filter item → Continue → Done.

Here here! couldn't agree more don't know where it came from but gets in the way of EVERYTHING, i'm no youngster & only one using this computor so totally pointless to me! however in vista go to control panel, select uninstall/change program, click on windows live essentials, window that opens from there gives you option to delete WLFSF, fingers crossed thats it killed off now!

How did this program get INSTALLED in the first place?  Am considering switching to YAHOO MESSENGER................holy this program is a pain.......

i have been trying to uninstall that thing for 3 days now and i can't seem to get it off my computer

I have uninstalled the Family Safety Filter via Control Panel and restarted the computer. The Filter is still operating!! It's stopping me from working. Where do go now to get rid of it? Help!!

My laptop runs on Windows Vista and I installed Windows Live Messenger 2009, I'm having no problems at all with it but there is one thing, I cannot connect to the internet at school because our school will not let anything "log in" into its "server" I guess...(not computer smart :P) any how I've tried EVERYTHING I could find on google..EVERYTHING, I tried to uninstall essentials - nothing - I tried to Delete it straight from program files, nothing. I even used this weird code some guy game me (RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove) still nothing.

Please if you could help me out, which I know you would, that would be absolutely fantastic.

I have children under 12 using the computer so I must use family safety. For last 6 months on a dell computer with windows Vista and the windows live family safety was working great and I loved it. I updated to the latest family safety program and IE7 as well as IE8 stopped working. Now I must stop the windows family safety program each time I want to use the IE.

I hope that MS is not dumb enough to release IE and Windows live family safety without testing. Why can't I use both of them as the same time now as I was able to do it for at least last six months?

can't get rid of it tried everything,there isn't anything in my add/remove to remove it looked everywhere can't find a thing,i don't even have my messenger anymore.How do i get rid of this thing?

i unistall it as you say but i still have to login in and then turn it off so i can open the internet any other way?!!!!

It is very simple. Someone installed this with a Live ID as a means to cyberspy on the user of the PC. uninstall it through the control panel or use the correct Live ID to turn content blocking off (and logging).

OMG!! I cannot figure this out! I consider myself lucky to even be allowed on this website. I can't go on anything, except for barbie.ca and polly pocket :S   I've looked through everything trying to delete this little monster, but I can't find it. There HAS to be a way to remove this, if someone knows, please let me know ASAP!

This filter is takeing over, every time i want to do something this FILTER JUMPS in. Loose this thing, Please !!!

is it *** get it the *** off my P.C

eric ,your only brilliant , oh my god i dont even know how i got that bloody thing om my computer driving me wrong if i new ya id buy a pint .

Thanks, wei cui it really did help great work

Windows Live Family Safety Filter is like ...... softaware god save who has this me also vary pain full soft is this.

Anyway, Im using windows XP and I had the same Family Safety problem, At first I could not use my MSN anymore so I tryed reinstalling and repairing it etc. And for some reason I moved my Family Safety folder to the desktop, can't remember why. Anyway I cannot remove it. I mean I could and I did delete all the files in it, and tought oh well I should be able to delete it now.. but hell no. It had a hidden folder in it called HistoryStore which I cannot even access nor delete. Altough I am the moderator. I've tryed Add/remove programs and I uninstalled every damn thing that has something to do with windows but still nothing. Help?

i hate it!

i had to reinstall Vista!

pain in the A**

FOUND THE SOLUTION...IT WORKS....

go to the Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs and uninstall either the entire Windows Live Essential Tools program or just the Windows Live Family Safety Filter item.

I have been trying to uninstall the windows live essentials but it wouldn't do any thing any help???

Kudos to "February 25, 2009 7:28 AM by Eric_Zhang" (see his comment up above) on how to uninstall this thing.

Instead of "Programs and Features", for Windows XP it's the "Add or Remove Programs" function that you typically use.

Simply go into it, choose "Windows Live Essential", and it'll ask you to choose which function to remove. In this case, it's obviously the "Family Safety" one.

Removed it fine for me. Hope it works for you. Thanks Eric!

suresh Shah, same problem here. used the program somewhat sucessfully for about a year on my son's computer. since installing ie8 on vista home pro, ie8 does not respond and i have to disable family safety to get on any websites, even ones which are allowed for him to visit! totally pointless now! going to try uninstalling and reinstalling.

Solved!!!  I found the Full Windows live at g.live.com/.../WLSetup.exe which I sneaker net (thumb drive) to my XP system.  Once this was installed (with Family Safety), I got the error saying the FSS driver needs to be started to allow internet access.  At this point, I just did a normal remove of Windows Live Family Safety from Add remove programs and the internet was no long dead.  Good luck on finding a solution.  I noticed may posts were old so maybe this will help new people.

I just skimmed all the comments above, and I sure hope I don't have the trouble with Family Safety that many of you have had. I installed it only this week on all the computers in the house. However, I installed only Family Safety and Live Messenger. I'm happy with my current browser and I have no desire to clutter my screen with toolbars. So far so good. My children are set up with strict security, and my husband and I have basic security, which blocks only adult-rated websites.

Up to this week, I had been using Vista Parental Controls to monitor my children's Internet, but somehow both my tween sons managed to find and get hooked on Internet pornography. That's when I knew we needed a stronger filter. But money is tight, so I found the Windows Live Family Safety (free) and chose to try it. My kids think it's great, and I am happy with it so far. One thing I like is the option for them to email me with a request for permission to a site. I don't have to drop what I'm doing to check something out; instead, they can wait until I have time. Another great feature is the preview. Before I give consent or denial, I can preview the website so that I know exactly what my children want access to.

Someone in an earlier post mentioned constant pop-ups. I experienced that, too. I was signed off of the filter because I was working offline. But the sign-in window kept popping on the screen every few seconds. I tried to leave it in the background, but the orange flashing at the bottom of the screen drove me nuts. Finally, I went ahead and signed in, and the annoying pop-ups ceased.

I hope you all are able to successfully remove the program or make peace with it.

Is the removal from add/remove program from Windows XP system will pose any problem as it may again ask the Windows Live ID and pwd.

I only wanted windows messenger for my daughter and successfully  installed it on the laptop I am using. Stupid me, tried installing it on my other laptop and accidently did not uncheck the family saftey filter and now I have the family "virus".  I tried uninstalling all related features and everything EXCEPT windows live essentials will delete. I have tried clicking uninstall and nothing happens.  In the meantime I think I deleted my access to go online (msn) and can't even go online at all. I have tried restoring the system to a previous time, great....now that feature is not working.  Is there something I can download on my jumpdrive and try to install on the injured laptop to get things going again? At this point, I would almost, but not really, be happy if I could even access the internet with the family filter popup. Thanks

for those who can't uninstall family safety filter in vista, try revouninstaller at

www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

it's a freeware and you can download a zip file if you don't want to install it to your computer.

revouninstaller will automatically scan all software you installed in your computer. find windows live family safety filter(3.8mb) and uninstalled it.

Go to Start and execute this:

msiexec /x {FDFECA37-4D18-48CD-9AE9-95213D3B5365}

It's all!

This safety filter is big problem, untill i found how to uninstal. IE8 is big ***, if u open site who have some error in the code he show the site in very bad way, and another browsers fix this problem and show the site corectly. Windows is big ***, will migrate to Ubunto or mac os.

I am currently sitting in the library as I can't use my own computer!  Sick of the feature, and it won't let me on the internet AT ALL and says my password is wrong (it isn't!!) and comes up with Error code 802107D0.  I went into Add/Remove programmes and disabled the family safety filter but it still comes back on!  I will now go back home and try deleting all of the Windows Live Essential Tools (I'm on Vista) to see if it works.  On the other hand, it's great to find a site and such helpful knowledgable people whatever happens (and that I'm not an idiot for having this problem!).  Thank you very much and will report back.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!  IT WORKED!  I hope everybody who has problems finds this site.

Hello,

I´ve got Error code 802107D0 too since yesterday. The problem is the same under XP (SP3) and VISTA. Both computers are connected to the same router. Thank you in advance for your help.

Way to uninstall Family Safety Filter:

Control Panel → Programs and Features → Windows Live Essentials → Uninstall/Change → Uninstall → Uncheck the Family Safety Filter item → Continue → Done.

Note: These Operations are under Windows 7, maybe different under Vista.    and Voila !!!

Thank You..Thank You.. Thank U..a hundred times over ...what a pain that was..but I followed the directions and uninstalled that stupid program. I couldn't access anything..?/ Previous to that I had to O.K. every single place I wanted to go or look at...If I had kids It would be a full time job just to allow or not allow them access..???? Unbeleivable..I hope it doesn't "Re-install" itself..??? Thanks

Wow omg... TALK ABOUT REPETITIVE!  This problem was solved MONTHS AGO, have people forgotten how to READ a dam post for an answer before POSTING the same question again???  The solution IS ON THIS PAGE ABOUT 6 OR 7 TIMES!!!!

If the solutions posted above do not work for you (guessing there's something wrong as its posted about 12 times, and people still complaining) then all I did was signed into Windows Live Family Safety Filter website, after signing in at the dialog box there is a link to the website, and there you can select which computers you want to remove.  It is more of a service than a program, and if you try removing it from the PC it might assume your "kids" are trying to hack a way around it.. it needs to be deactivated from the actual windows live website!

pleasssssssss leave me aloneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee family safty filter i dont need you.

I agree, what a pain in the rear!  Just spent two hours trying to sort it out.

This has little to do with IE specifically. It pops up even if you use a "good" browser like Firefox.

agree agree agree.

i submitted "ticket" to MS Support.

they supplied the standard removal "recipes".

nothing worked after repeated attempts.

supposedly the "ticket" was forward to the "Development Team".

and, that is where my "ticket' fell into the black-hole.

sady, this CRAP was downloaded w/o requesting it. gee thanks, MS.  don't they realize if i want something i could ASK for it?

a user on this shared computer made the mistake of activating the FSS after being "notified" that this new "feature" was ready to be activated.

"Would you like to activate FSS?"

believe me, the answer ALWAYS should be "NO".

i have resubmitted the problem and waiting 2 hear from MS.  waiting.

I am using it on my kids PC (Windows 7 Ultimate RTM) and it works flawless.  You just need to know what you are doing and how to set it up.  If you set up the parent accounts, they can do whatever on the PC.  The child accounts can be restricted so that they can't access anything on the internet without your approval.  You also set it up so that whenever you or your family logs in, it auto signs in to the windows live account they have assigned to them.  It's easy.  Just don't install it on a PC if you arent gonna use it.  Most people just install all apps without knowing what they do then get themselves into messes like the one that started this thread.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I have been trying for weeks now to get rid of the family safety and couldn't find it in the add/remove section. I could get on the internet but every page I searched gave me different info on how to remove it and none of it worked. Thanks again for having the correct information on here.

i can never log onto internet cos needed tolog onto family safety  first. It never worked and i could never get help cos i couldn't access the internet. i followed to instructions mentioned above and i was able to uninstall the silly program.

thanks.. that was helpful :)

just used revo uninstaller..........thankyou whoever posted that up you are a genius!!!!

Thank you! Uninstalling Family Safety worked for me just now. Hopefully it's a permanent fix, this program has caused nothing but frustrations since I installed it last year, in the hopes of keeping my kids out of trouble. It never worked as advertized, and at the end blocked my access to the internet all together.

Good riddace.

If she was a friend, you won't charge her $10. ;)

Windows Live Essential won't uninstall, I tried uninstalling family safety before, now i cant access it unless it pops up and blokcs something! HELP!!!!!

i need to protect my email from being seen by my family because its my privacy and i hate being without privacy and without un trused by parents.

I installed and uninstalled Family Safety, but when my computer restarted the main (administrator) account was missing. My files are on the computer, but my log in is gone from the welcome screen. HELP