Children are much more tech savvy these days and use computers regularly. There is so much that you can control like which web sites a child can and cannot visit, and controlling which programs they can open.
You can also block your children from downloading files. This is a great feature where a graph is displayed and you can click and drag the hours that you want to block or allow your children from using the computer. The blocks will turn blue to signify that the time has been blocked. Under the game ratings section, you first determine whether or not the child can play games at all. By default there is no restriction on the user on using the computer.
To put time restrictions on the user, use your mouse to click and drag around the grid to capture the timings. If the users are children then you can avoid them to use your computer during their study hours and late hours.
The blue blocks represent the timings that are blocked. Games Game Ratings. Games parental control determines whether your children can play games on your computer. The default game parental control setting allows all the standard users to play games, to restrict them open the following window by clicking on Games in the User Controls window. Since by default standard user can play games, Yes radio button is selected.
By clicking on Set game ratings you can go to the Game Restrictions window where you can choose appropriate ratings from the list defined by Entertainment Software Ratings Board. You can also block some content even if the games has allow rating for that. Allow and Block Specific Programs. This is the last type of parental control that lets you to allow or block certain applications or programs. By default standard user can use all programs , hence the radio button is selected.
To manually choose what programs user can access, choose User can only use the programs I allow and then select the applications you want to allow the user from the list.
You have seen how to set parental controls for standard users. Now let us see how standard users experience working on the system when parental controls are applied to them. Except for some actions that activate the parental controls, standard users work normally. But where actions are blocked, like in the example below, some games are blocked, when the user tries to play or open the game he gets the following dialog box.
User can ask for permission to run blocked applications, by choosing the option Ask an administrator for permission from the Windows Parental Controls dialog box. In this case you will be prompted with the User Account Control credentials dialog box, administrator can then verify what the standard user wants to do and grant him permission.
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