The latest version of Windows Live OneCare aims to better help you manage multiple PCs. New features such as wireless network security and management, printer sharing, and centralized backup make maintain simple and easy from a central location.

• Multi-PC and home network management: Helps ease management of multiple-PC environments by providing a single navigation bar for monitoring the security and maintenance of networked computers. Also enables one-click actions to resolve issues among computers within a home PC network.
• Printer sharing support: Makes it easy to connect printers to local networks so all users in the vicinity can use the same printer.
• Start time optimizer: Speeds PC boot time by removing rarely used applications from start-up menu. This helps to address one of the main areas of frustration for PC users as time goes on.
• Proactive fixes and recommendations: Windows Live OneCare constantly monitors the specific configuration of the user’s system and makes proactive fixes and recommendations to improve the computing experience.
• WiFi security: Keep your home or small business wireless network safe with the new OneCare WiFi security feature.
• Centralized backup: Enables users to centrally configure and monitor backups for all PCs covered under the same OneCare subscription, with the data from all PCs backed up to a central location.
• Online photo backup: Keeps precious photos safe from theft or accidental loss by backing them up to a secure, offsite location in Windows Live (available to OneCare subscribers at an extra cost in the final v2.0 release).

All-in-one Care That's Always There

As always, Windows Live OneCare takes the guesswork out of making sure your PC stays virus-free and working at its best. As a subscriber, you'll get four main areas of service: Protection Plus, Performance Plus, Backup and Restore, and Help and Support.

Key Feature	Feature Description	Benefits
Protection Plus
Real-time and on-demand antivirus and antispyware scanner	Automatically scans and cleans files on your PC, including files you receive via MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger. Includes an option to scan existing files or folders on your PC instantly by right-clicking them. Checks the files on your PC for viruses and other malicious or unwanted programs and blocks access to infected files until you decide what to do with them. Updates your virus definition files automatically when your computer is connected to the Internet.	Helps keep your PC safe from viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware.
Managed, two-way firewall	Includes ongoing policy updates to its blocked and allow list, requiring minimum intervention on your part.	Helps protect your PC from hackers when you send or receive data over the Internet.
OneCare Advisories	We'll send you notices for any breaking issues related to your PC's security.	Helps keep you informed about new security threats and how to guard against them.
Anti-phishing integration	Integration of Microsoft Phishing Filter in Windows Internet Explorer 7.	Helps protect your personal information while surfing or shopping on the Web.
Microsoft Update integration	OneCare, upon installation, sets Microsoft Updates to automatically download and install high priority updates. Any other Microsoft Updates delivery and installation setting must be manually enabled by the user, and will result in an at risk status.	Helps ensure that important and recommended Microsoft updates of Microsoft products for Windows XP or Windows Vista PCs, such as improved security and reliability, are installed efficiently and in a timely manner.
Performance Plus
Tune-up	Scheduled to run automatically or as often as you like, OneCare automatically tunes up your PC every six hours by finding, diagnosing, and fixing common issues, in many cases before you know there is a problem. Maintains important settings at recommended levels, correcting broken hardware and software configuration Automates a series of tasks, including defragmenting your PC's hard disk and fixing common problems that might affect the security, performance or reliability of your computer.	Improves and maintains your PC’s performance. Checks your computer for common problems that affect the security, performance or reliability of your computer and automatically fixes them. Examples include issues with your printer settings, network configurations, optimizing your internet browsing settings, ensuring that you have a pop-up blocker, etc. We are continuously working to expand the list of problems that we scan for and fix.
Removal of unnecessary files	Scans your PC and removes temporary and other unnecessary files that slow down your computer. Scheduled to run automatically or as often as you like.	Helps keep your PC running at peak performance.
Backup and Restore
Automated backup	Backs up your files to CD, DVD, external hard drive, networked drive, or other data-storage device and allows you to select files you want to back up by specific categories, such as music, pictures, and video. It also allows you to perform Centralized Backup, by using a single storage device for all computers in a subscription and Online Photo Backup, to a central Windows Live OneCare server. Scheduled to run automatically or as often as you like.	Helps protect your important data from loss or corruption as a result of accidental deletion, malicious attacks, or hard-disk failure.
Choice of full or incremental backup	Full backup makes a copy of all your important files and folders. Incremental backup backs up only those files that are new or have changed since your last backup.	Saves you time and gives you greater flexibility when backing up your files.
Restoration of missing files or all files	Option to restore specific files or all files missing from your PC, or mapped to a new PC.	Protects important files and documents, even on another PC running OneCare.
Help and Support
Windows Live OneCare Help Center	Offers e-mail, chat, and phone support.	One-click access to effective help whenever you need it.
PC Environment Management
Monitor All PCs in a Subscription	If you install Windows Live OneCare on more than one PC, OneCare will consider all PCs to be part of your “All PCs” network. Within your “All PCs” network, you have the ability to monitor and manage all PCs from one location.	Multi-PC monitoring refers to the ability to monitor the Windows Live OneCare health status of remote PCs from one centralized place. Multi-PC management refers to the ability to take OneCare actions on remote PCs from one centralized place. You’ll also be able to backup files from all PCs in the circle to a centralized backup device (like an external hard drive) and print from a Printer shared by multiple PCs.