As an uncle, I have witnessed the problems associated with managing a child’s time on the PC. If you have the free Windows Live Family Safety add on installed, you can further control your child’s experiences on the web, we’ll take a look at that a little later in this article.īy default, Game Ratings, Time and Program limits are off. Select the On, enforce current settings radio box and immediately you can start adjusting settings for Time limits, Games, Allowed/blocked programs. Here you will see the list of settings available for managing this account with Parental Controls, right now, it is turned off. I created a Test Account just for the purposes of this article. Also, ensure that your account has a strong password on it. The reason for this is quite logical, of course considering that the Parent Controls are intended for could log in to your account is easy bypass these settings. You will notice that you can apply Parental Controls only to accounts that are Standard User or Guest. Our intention is to setup Parental Controls on one of the accounts on this computer. Lets take a look at setting up Parental Controls in Windows 7.Īs you can see, the Parental Controls Explorer features a clean design with well explained options. You can allow access by entering your account information. Your child can click a link in the notification to request permission for access to that game or program. When Parental Controls blocks access to a game or program, notification is displayed that the program has been blocked. For example, you can set limits on the hours that your children can use the computer, the types of games they can play, and the programs they can run.
You can use Parental Controls to help manage how your children use the computer. Of course, Parents have a greater role to play, and Parental Control’s in Windows Vista and 7 is one of the tools there to help them regulate and control their child’s experiences on the PC and Internet. With today’s pervasive Internet, the risk are higher, we have seen cases of teenagers and much younger being solicited in chartrooms, over instant messaging and most recently with the advent of popular social networks young children being lured away from home to take part in wrongful activities. Ten years ago, the Internet was a small extension of the desktop that was available to a select few.
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