Windows Live Family Safety Service keeps closing Start Menu

Posted by Jim McKeeth on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jim McKeeth
Published on 2010-12-24T10:30:15Z Indexed on 2010/12/24 10:55 UTC
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Got my kids a new Toshiba Laptop for Christmas. I was setting it all up for them so it would be ready to go. Tonight I installed Windows Live Family Safety Parental Controls. In the process of testing I discovered that on all the accounts the Start Menu closes automatically within 3 seconds (or less) of opening. It seems that it happens every 3 seconds, so sometimes it is immediate, and if I open it again then it will stay open for a full 3 seconds.

This of course is rather annoying, and I need to wrap it up so it is ready to go under the tree.

I disabled the Windows Live Family Safety Service, and that fixed it. Enable it again and the behavior returns. Is this a feature of the service? Can I disable that feature and keep the other features?

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