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The Parental Control Feature In Windows Vista.

Windows Vista makes smart use of user account to give you control of your system. To make it work for you, you’ll want to make sure that your account, which is the system administrator account, is password protected. You can set up Activity Monitoring to do your snooping for you. Parental Controls not only let you pick which games your children can play; they also give you the power to block dubious websites, set time limits, and even block specific programs on your PC to keep the youngsters from messing with your business documents. In short you take control of how your kids use pc.

1. Open the Control Panel by selecting it from the Start menu, then click “Set up parental controls for any user”
2. Choose which user you’d like to adjust setting for. If your child doesn’t already have his or her own user account, you can create one by clicking “create a new user account” from the bottom of this screen
3. The user controls menu is the heart of windows Vista’s Parental Controls, giving you a quick glance at your current settings and acting as a gateway to all of this user’s restrictions. Set Parental Controls and Activity Reporting to On, then click Games. Here you decide yes/no to allow games.
4.The game ratings are explained here. So you can choose to allow or block games with no or particular rating,

In the games control menu, you can also choose to “Block or Allow specific games” in Game Controls menu. Now you can select any specific game you’d like to block or allow, regardless of its rating. If you don't want to let your kids play at odd times, go back to the User Controls menu and click Time limits, which will bring up the Time Restrictions menu. Click the boxes in the grid to block specific time slots

Windows Vista Parental Controls also let you control web surfing and access to other programs on your PC. For Instance, to help keep your child away from potentially harmful websites, set an automatic blocking level in the Web Restrictions menu, and even add specific sites to your blocked list. To keep the kids from messing around in your finance program, you can block it in the Application Restrictions menu just by putting a checkmark next to it. Do note however, that the Parental Control is not included in Vista Business Edition by default.

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