{"id":217,"date":"2006-01-30T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T22:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2006-02-09T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:58:07","slug":"windows-live-safety-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Safety Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more and more users relying on their PCs for day-to-day activities, what happens when things start to go wrong?  Finding reliable experts can be a tricky and expensive process.  Luckily, there is some help at hand in the form of the Windows Live Safety Center.<\/p>\n<p>The [Microsoft] <a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/\">Windows Live Safety Center<\/a> promises to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check for and remove viruses<\/li>\n<li>Learn about threats<\/li>\n<li>Improve your PC&#8217;s performance<\/li>\n<li>Get rid of junk on your hard disk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to &#8220;allow pop-ups&#8221; for this tool to work.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-US\/community\/default.htm\">Community<\/a> section, where you can expect to find answers to such questions as:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-us\/article\/slowpc.htm\">My PC is slow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-us\/article\/lostfile.htm\">I&#8217;ve lost an important file. How can I find it?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-us\/article\/pcfreezes.htm\">My PC crashes a lot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-us\/article\/virus_remove.htm\">I need to get rid of a virus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-us\/article\/hardwareproblems.htm\">I\u2019m having problems installing or using hardware<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-us\/article\/pcstartissue.htm\">My PC takes a long time to start up or reboot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-Us\/article\/software_problems.htm\">I&#8217;m having problems installing or using software<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-Us\/article\/updateproblems.htm\"> I&#8217;m having problems with Microsoft Update<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/safety.live.com\/site\/en-Us\/article\/userpermissions.htm\">I need to be an Administrator to install or use a program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The site itself looks to be taking the form of a portal, offering the collation of a number of other services including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=321CD7A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&#038;displaylang=en\">Windows AntiSpyware (beta)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s currently in beta, but it looks fully-featured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}