Parental controls and Media Player

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Need some help please....
I have Vista and have set up parental controls to allow only specific sites under my child's user account. I have also selected "allow all programs" under parental control so that he can use the programs on the computer. However, when on an approved website and he clicks on a link that attempts to pull up Windows Media Player, it appears to open up but will not play anything. I get a message saying I need to turn off parental controls for it to work. Why is that so if I have allowed all programs, and is there a way to correct this?
Thank you in advance
 

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Thank you Richard.
I will try that this evening.
Just so I understand...If I already have Windows Media Player on my computer, will simply changing the parental controls on the player itself (as opposed to Vista's parental controls) cause it to work?
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Your statment is in agrement with my understanding of the article.

Hey, good news, school starts soon.
 
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I was able to try this this morning and no success. It simply changed the DVD settings so that certain DVDs will not play if they contain content that is unsuitable for certain age groups. The default setting is "none" for no restrictions. I left it there. Any other ideas? Thank you.
 

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Even with all my posts, I have never encountered this problem, before. I have one suggestion, that will probably go over like a lead balloon.
Rather than put all, list the ones that are allowed. If there are a lot, I know that this is not practical.

Im working on i,t though, any better ideas will be posted.
 

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    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
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    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
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    Keyboard
    Dell USB
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We actually tried that too last evening. Didn't work for us unfortunately. I am wondering if maybe the problem isn't with the program itself (media player) but with the location media player is trying to pull the video from. I am thinking this as the player does pull up, it just doesn't play anything. What do you think?
 

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Does it, actually, work if you remove controls?
 

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    Dell XPS420
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    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
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If it were mine, I would set up another account, for test, set up PC controls and see how that goes.
 

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    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
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