Parental controls windows vista business

You receive a UAC prompt when you do any of the following:. When you run a program function or a system function, you may receive a UAC prompt.

Most of these programs are legacy programs. Newer versions of the same programs do not trigger UAC. You cannot set UAC to automatically run a program as an administrator without the user being prompted.

In Windows Vista, some programs only run correctly if you run them as an administrator. You may be able to run newer versions of the same programs without having to run them as an administrator. Note A security risk may result by using administrative credentials to run an unknown program. Only run programs that you trust as an administrator.

Important These steps may increase your security risk. These steps may also make the computer or the network more vulnerable to attack by malicious users or by malicious software such as viruses. We recommend the process that this article describes to enable programs to operate as they are designed to or to implement specific program capabilities. Before you make these changes, we recommend that you evaluate the risks that are associated with implementing this process in your particular environment.

If you decide to implement this process, take any appropriate additional steps to help protect the system. Has anyone else tried it? Re: Parental Controls for Windows Vista Business Fri Jul 18, am One option is to make a batch file that simply runs logoff then schedule that using task scheduler. That is not as flexible as the time managment in parental controls but it is one way to force them off at certain times. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Or perhaps if I wanted to limit her to 1 hour periods at a time I can create a BAT file with shutdown -s -t so she's limited the moment she logs in - via login script that can be added to her account. Then use the logon hours to adjust when I want to allow her to use it or not, etc.

The main reason for this is that when she's playing a game, especially the newer ones which are graphically intensive like Kung Fu Panda and LEGO Indiana Jones, she walks away and turns off the monitor I've told her numerous times to turn it off when she walks away but she's hard headed like me sometimes.

Thanks for reminding me of that option though. Can't believe I forgot about it. Hence if you have standard user accounts other than your administrator account then from your administrator account you can configure parental controls on them. Then choose the user for whom you want to assign parental controls.

Following window appears as soon as you pickup the user. As you would make out, Parental Controls are disabled by default. Once you enable them, by choosing the radio button On, enforce current settings the options related to parental controls will be available. Let us take a look at them one by one:. Activity Reporting. You can view these records in the form of activity report, by clicking on View activity reports in the same window.

These activity reports are available for each user for whom parental controls are set. Web Restrictions Parental Control determines what web content your user can access. You can either Block some websites or content or Allow all websites and content. Allow and block specific websites lets you Edit the Allow and block list and in addition to this option is available to Only allow websites which are on the allow list.

In the Allow or block specific websites window, you can add Allowed websites and Blocked websites. You can also choose to Only Allow websites which are on the allow list. In addition to these options, you can import or export your list of allowed or blocked websites. If you block some websites or content, you can block content using the automatic restriction levels — High, Medium, None or Custom.

Custom level lets you filter out the web content by choosing the options provided by Vista. The last option available in this section is to Block file downloads. Time Limits. The Time Limits parental control lets you configure exactly what time the user can use the computer.

This control uses a grid to represent the time. 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.

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