The toolbar also allows users to synchronize their Internet Explorer favorites across multiple computers and provides an interface to Windows Live and MSN services.

Founded by JJ Allaire, Allaire Corporation co-founder and creator of the programming language ColdFusion, along with Adam Berrey[2] and Charles Teague,[3] Onfolio was an online research tool that could be used to collect data from the web and make annotations such as inking and text highlighting.

Onfolio could be used to download online pages for offline viewing, including document files such as Adobe PDF.

[7] Older versions of Windows Live Toolbar also provided a form filler and a highlight viewer, but these features have been removed.

[8] However, it is no longer a part of the "Wave 4" version of Windows Live Essentials (released on 30 September 2010[9]); it is replaced with Bing Bar.