The computer is a wonderful tool and the Internet, in particular, may be a good way to learn and understand, if used wisely. Indeed, if the relevant information and materials are numerous on the Web, other factors must not fall into the hands of children. Therefore difficult to leave their offspring alone against the screen without fear of it falling on content unsuitable for their age. There are solutions, however, and use the parental controls included with Windows is one. Follow the guide!
Step 1: Prerequisites and account creation
To use and configure the parental control of Windows, you must above all have a Home or Ultimate edition of Windows Vista. It should also be recognized as a computer administrator to apply a control to a standard account. If your PC has only one account, you’ll have to create one.
1. Go to the Control Panel in Windows via the Start menu.
2. Click on “Add or remove user accounts” under the User Accounts tab, then “Create a new account.
3. Then enter the name of the new users and keep the box “Standard User” selected.
4. Confirm the operation by clicking on “Create account”.
Note that for the parental control is effective, we need the account managers are provided with a password.
Step 2: Enable Parental Controls
Once this account is created, you can click it to begin to define supervision rules: Enable Parental Controls at first, then report if you want to keep track of the different uses made with your computer. Thereafter, you must define the control levels for the following: Web, video games and access time to the computer. These settings are accessible both via the lower left corner and right side, which tells you the status of settings. Let’s see what it is.
Step 3: Filter the Internet
Navigating the Web is probably the key element to control in protecting your children. Then click on “Filter Windows Vista restricting access to the Web” and click “Block some websites or content” to activate this control. It remains then to determine what type of lock you want to make:
• without limitation, your child can view any web page;
• blocking average prevent him from accessing a site to adult content, pornography, referring to drugs, weapons, or using hate speech. Windows handles these criteria and the restriction may be more severe than expected;
• Custom Profile allows you to choose what kind of content is blocked from a selection;
• Finally, the high restriction blocks all sites except those approved as providing content for children.
A final option allows access to sites clearly authorized by you in what Windows calls the green list while its counterpart, the Red List, lists all the websites explicitly blocked. You can edit this list and modify it as often as necessary.
Note that you can also block or otherwise allow download sites allowed.
Step 4: Establish a schedule of access to the PC
Windows provides a way to limit the use of PCs for every account controlled by the administrator. At Home Parental Controls, click on the link “Term Limits” to see a timetable: the white boxes represent the times during which your child can access the computer, the blue boxes are those where the access it be prohibited. Note that drag your mouse while holding the left button pressed will allow you to “fill” your table more easily.
Step 5: Check the use of video games
The game is one of the preferred occupations of children on a PC. Windows therefore provides a natural options to manage this use. If you authorize the release of games on the computer, but you can select programs to run:
• using the classification of games offered by Microsoft. Based on the PEGI (for Pan European Game Information), it can prevent or allow the execution of a game based on the age of the child. Any game that does not contain information to classify it may also be blocked.
• blocking or allowing a game directly via the link “Block or allow specific games. Note that only games using the PEGI system appear in this list.
Step 6: Allow only certain programs
Just as it is possible to block or activate a game specifically, parental controls allow or prohibit the execution of an application whatsoever, via the module “Allow or block a specific program “hospitality. Click here to see a list of executables on your computer. The task may be long and tedious, but it is possible to select only some elements of this list, corresponding to applications that your child will have access.
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