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| Guest | Vista Parental Controls Not Working I can't get Parental Controls working in Vista. "Parental Controls" is "On" for every account on my machine, but nothing is blocked. I get no errors. Rebooting doesn't work. Manually adding sites to the "banned" list doesn't work. Thanks for your time. |
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working To manage Parental Controls, open the Windows Control Panel, click "Set up parental controls...", and consent to the security elevation box. Select the user account that you want to manage. (If you don't have a separate user account for each person who will regularly use the computer, you should consider making one, as everything tends to work better that way). Windows will let you turn Parental Controls on, and then manage more detailed settings (for example, enforcing usage time limits or blocking certain programs). To test the parental controls, try blocking all games on your child's account. Log out of your account, and log in under your child's account. Try running "Solitaire" while logged in under your child's account. If you get an error message while doing any of the steps above, post it here, and we'll see if we can help you. As an aside, actually trying to block every "bad" website is almost impossible. The internet has many, many "bad" websites, and clever people can find more than one way to access a website (for example, Firefox does not currently obey any restrictions). "joeUser" wrote:
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working I can block games; good test. Still cannot block any Web sites for any user. I'm using the worst and most obvious Web sites for my tests; no luck. No errors generated. Is there a panel which tracks errors that I can access? (Yes, I'm doing all this as admin.) "Jeff Smith [MSFT]" wrote:
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working Hmm, you can block games but not websites... strange. If you manually type a specific address, like "http://www.example.com/" into the blocked sites list, and then navigate to the same site in your child's copy of Internet Explorer, does it show the site being blocked? As to your other question: you can view a list of system errors and warnings by opening the Start menu, typing in "Event viewer", and pressing Enter to run the Windows event viewer utility. "joeUser" wrote:
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working My system has many errors, according to Event Viewer. Looks like my accounts have gotten corrupted again. Example (one of many): {Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '\??\C:\Users\Isaac\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost. Sigh. This is the second time I'll have to restore my drive since buying this mess. Vista is _so_ frustrating!!!!! I user commercial virus protection, Windows Defender, a good firewall, etc. Sheesh!!!!! |
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working I'm sorry to hear that. This kind of corruption (as you probably realize) can be fairly serious. It might be caused if your computer is shut off forcibly (like in a power outage); or if your hard drive is silently corrupting random data (happens more than people realize). If the errors seem to be limited to c:\users\... , you don't have to reinstall the whole OS. Just add a new user account and delete the old one (transferring all your files first). "joeUser" wrote:
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working Ugh!!! Just like last time -- "Sorry, your Vista box has corrupt accounts. Probably other problems, too. Creating new accounts doesn't fix everything, so reformat. Good thing you have backups!" What kind of OS does this to people?? Never had that problem with XP; never had it on my Macs since I started using them in 1993. Thanks for your help in any case. I didn't like the answer but I knew it was likely coming again, even with all my precautions. Now I can troubleshoot these problem better. "Jeff Smith [MSFT]" wrote:
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| Guest | RE: Vista Parental Controls Not Working "joeUser" wrote:
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| Senior Member ![]() Rep Power: 25 ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Vista Parental Controls Not Working I never need to use Parental Controls, so I am not sure if this will work. How about "changing gears" : enter what you ALLOW instead. Never mind the " banned" list. What do you think. Will it work ? |
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