parental controls

The in-laws are having computer issues. They are experiencing crash dumps once every couple days...sometimes more often. I attached the crash dump file. One thing else I noticed in the Administrative event log is a series of events: The application-specific permission settings do not grant...

Gidday Thanks for dropping in to give me a helping hand. I have a son who is crazy about starcraft 2 and COD spending way to much time gaming. As a would be responsible parent I decided to limit his gaming time by setting up time limits through parental controls in windows 7 ultimate. After...

Use the built-in Parental Controls in Windows 7 to restrict access to certain programs and games on your computer from your child (or other user). In addition, you can also restrict the amount of time your child users the computer making sure they are not online all the time. Link Removed

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Hi... I'm trying to ugrade from Vista to Widows 7 but keep getting the follwing message: The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task, and then restart the upgrade to continue. Windows needs to be restarted so necessary changes to...

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Hi i just bought windows home premium for my family i made three user accounts on my computer one for my self and two for my sons. I am pretty good with computers but because windows 7 is a little different i need some help. Lets get to my Question. I want to make my kids accounts: be...

1. How do I disable the command prompt for a standard user account on my computer? 2. Can my geeky teenager get around Windows7 parental controls by using the command prompt from his standard account on my computer?

In this presentation, we will discuss how to enable Parental Controls for a user. Enabling Parental Controls is pretty simple. What we want to do is go to the Start Menu under Windows 7, Control Panel, and we have an option under the Category View to Add or Remove User Accounts. At this time, we...

I'm a brand new Windows 7 user and very satisfied so far. I've created a Standard user account without password for use by visitors. I've already setup Parental Controls to limit access to programs. That seems to work well. My hard drive is divided into two partitions: C: and E: for OS/programs...

I'm a 7 newbie. I wish to setup a Standard user account without password for visitors. I will employ parental controls to limit access to most programs. How do I edit the Start menu of the newly created Standard user account so that the restricted programs are not visible? At the moment, the...

Parental Controls Help [Solved] Hey there, I've had my laptop since Christmas of last year, and I got it with Vista. My dad set parental time controls on it, setting the time I could log on to 6AM - 12AM. Recently, he upgraded my laptop to 7, and switched my account to an administrator soon...

It has been observed that now a days kids are using internet, not only for knowledge purpose but also for personal use. Free email services are not always safe, and specially for the kids its important to have a secure email service so that we can make their email accounts safe and clean. There...

From Vista Ultimate I tried to install Windows 7 Utimate upgrade but after a long time, I got a message that the upgrade failed. Next I was directed to reverse the upgrade and boot from Vista. Next I ran Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. Information about upgrading: Windows Mail, Parental Contreols...

CoH: ToV won't install for me as once it gets to %100 it fails and says the parental controls won't let it install. I am the admin and never have turn on the parental controls before, hack, I never even bother going their until now. I have try running the game as admin and even setting it to win...

What is this horrendous crap? I'm trying to play GTAIV which I have done in the past but now its saying I can't due to Parental Controls. I've added a password to my user account (the only account) and I still cannot disable this crap. Can it be found in the registry etc? I want this...

i purchased a used dell laptop with vista home installed on it. i then bought a router for my home. i can connect to the internet on my pc which is running xp with no problem. when i try to connect my laptop i can only connect with limited connectivity. i have tried numerous things and then...

Hi, I am having an issue with starting IE on vista. Up to a few weeks back IE started up when you clicked on it. Now however i can only start IE by choosing "run as administrator". Why has this suddenly become the case? Two points off that: 1. i am the machine administrator so i can do...

I just bought a new PC with Windows Vista Home Premium in it. It had been alright during the first few weeks until this time when I can no longer access the User Accounts and Family Safety as well as the Security Menu in the Control Panel. There is a shield besides the Allow a Program through...

I just got my laptop a few weeks ago and yesterday I first tried to set a password. But when I make one a message comes up saying Parental Controls "Windows cannot set your password." How can that be when there is no current password and i am the administrator. I keep trying it over and it gives...