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| | Parental Controls On my PC with Vista Basic I have 2 accounts, 1 being mine as Administrator & the other being for the kids. Both accounts have Password to enter them. In the kids account I go into Control Panel>Internet Options>Content>Parental Controls, however they show as being off and I can't click none of the options on left side to set them. Do I need to do this under my Admin. account or what? -- Thanks, Bill Post replies back to News Group |
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| | Re: Parental Controls Willy wrote: Quote: > On my PC with Vista Basic I have 2 accounts, 1 being mine as Administrator > & > the other being for the kids. Both accounts have Password to enter them. > In the kids account I go into Control Panel>Internet > Options>Content>Parental Controls, however they show as being off and I > can't click none of the options on left side to set them. > Do I need to do this under my Admin. account or what? account. Use Vista's Help & Support to learn about Parental Controls. BTW, you should not be running as administrator for your daily work. It is not a secure way to work and if your user account becomes corrupted (not uncommon) it will be hard for you to rescue the system. The user account that is for your daily work should be a Standard user, with the extra administrative user (call it something like "CompAdmin" or "Tech" or the like) only there for elevation purposes. After you create "CompAdmin", log into it and change your regular user account to Standard. Then log back into your regular account. You would then administer Parental Controls when logged into the CompAdmin account. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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| | Re: Parental Controls Thanks so much for your advice on use of Admin account & Parental Controls. -- Thanks, Bill Post replies back to News Group "Malke" <malke@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OmXNENMIKHA.6068@xxxxxx Quote: > Willy wrote: > Quote: >> On my PC with Vista Basic I have 2 accounts, 1 being mine as >> Administrator >> & >> the other being for the kids. Both accounts have Password to enter them. >> In the kids account I go into Control Panel>Internet >> Options>Content>Parental Controls, however they show as being off and I >> can't click none of the options on left side to set them. >> Do I need to do this under my Admin. account or what? > You need to administer Parental Controls from an administrative user > account. Use Vista's Help & Support to learn about Parental Controls. > > BTW, you should not be running as administrator for your daily work. It is > not a secure way to work and if your user account becomes corrupted (not > uncommon) it will be hard for you to rescue the system. The user account > that is for your daily work should be a Standard user, with the extra > administrative user (call it something like "CompAdmin" or "Tech" or the > like) only there for elevation purposes. After you create "CompAdmin", log > into it and change your regular user account to Standard. Then log back > into > your regular account. > > You would then administer Parental Controls when logged into the CompAdmin > account. > > Malke > -- > MS-MVP > Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ > |
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