How to set effective parental control on Vista

By Ashish Mohta

Children Safety, In this term, there are 2 different perspectives to see. First is on their mental problem when exposed to the adult sites and videos. Second is the Logical stress facing the malicious scripts (Viruses, Spyware, and so on).

Vista has a great Parental Control for your children. Parental Control is design for your Children Safety and avoids them from any harmful contents and sites.
children-safety.gifVista has done a great move in this section.

By integrated the system with an advance but easy navigated parental Control, Vista make every parent feel “safe” using them as their children’s PC OS.

What you can do with Vista’s Parental Control ?

With Vista’s Parental Control do the following task easily:

  • Parent can define which site their children are restricted (Normal Parenting Control)
  • Parent can limit the download processes (this one sound’s interesting because you can prevent your children to download adult movies that have a big sizes)
  • Parent use the “Time limit” for each of the computer user (this sounds promising because if your children interact to much with computer, there will be a health problems occur)
  • One more interesting feature that Vista has is that it can block application from running without permission. This is practically important because if you manage to lock all media player for playing movies, you can decrease the “opportunities” of your children to open adult movies.

Below is the mini guide to set your parental control in Vista:

  1. From the ‘Control Panel’ Window, Choose the ‘User Account’ and click the ‘Manage Another Account’
  2. Choose and click on the desired account (example: ‘Jennifer’)
  3. Click ‘Set up Parental Controls’
  4. Choose one account that you want to control (example: ‘Jennifer’) and Vista will pop-up the Parental Controls setup window
  5. Click ‘On’ in the Parental Controls. And all components will light up (including an option labeled ‘Up to ADULT ONLY’)
  6. Choose ‘On’ in the ‘Activity Reporting’ option
  7. Click other option, like ‘Web restrictions’. After the process, the next window will come up
  8. Choose ‘On’ again at the option ‘Do you want to block some web content?’
  9. Next, decide which content that you want to block in the ‘Web Contents’ list (You may choose: ‘Pornography’ and ‘Sex Education’)
  10. Click OK to close the window and at the same time, ‘Jennifer’ has been protected!

Written by Ken Xu, blogger in Web 2.0, and Money Making Tips, Tips and Tweaks on Blogging. Do visit his site and ask him questions regarding his posts. He will tell you for sure. I hope you enjoyed the post


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Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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    • Nirmal, July 3, 2007:

      Looks like Ken Xu is having Parental control enabled on his Vista! :D :D

    • Ashish Mohta, July 3, 2007:

      Haha I think the same. lol…..

    • Ken Xu, July 4, 2007:

      Huh, you can tell? Real wizard huh? :lol:

    • Fernando, August 29, 2008:

      I started using this over the weekend with my son’s laptop. Unfortunately the problem I found with Parental Control is that it kept asking me to approve a website (java game sites are most common) and those sites could have links/urls to porn websites with such obscure names as tkn.kl.jp/game/ or even an IP address like 89.34.54.656. How on earth is anyone meant to know whether these are “safe” sites or not? The rule of thumb is to deny such websites, but if you do, you could be blocking a good site that only has the stub programs for the java game. So I allow them and I still watch my son over his shoulder - to be safe. I think the later is the only best way to make sure your children are really safe. Leaving them alone with the internet is asking for trouble.
      ps. How can I allow a blocked site being unblocked later?

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