Parental controls (User control) in Windows Vista
In Windows Vista build 5270, a new Family Safety and User Accounts control panel lets you access the system's user account and parental controls functionality (Refer Pic below),
the latter of which has been extensively updated. Now, any
administrator on the system (typically a parent) can configure parental controls for any limited user (typically a child). You configure these settings on a user-by-user basis (Refer Pic below).
In the main configuration window, you can enable parental controls, determine whether you will collective activity reports that detail what the user is doing, and set up various controls for Web restrictions, time limits, games, and programs you might want to block.
The Web restrictions settings include Web filtering, in which you can allow or block specific Web sites; Web content filtering, which includes various
restriction levels; content types you'd like to block (including bomb making, hate speech, and sex education, among several others); and whether to block file downloads (Refer Pic below).
In Time Restrictions settings, you use a project planning-like grid to toggle specific time blocks as allowed or blocked (Refer Pic below).
This will
prevent the user from accessing the PC at those times you've blocked. So, you might set up a schedule for your kids where they can access the PC from 3 to 7 during the week, but all day on weekends, or whatever (Refer Pic below).
The Games settings lets you determine whether the user can play games at all, and if so, which games, by ESRB ratings, or via a list of games you've specifically blocked or allowed. And in the Block Specific Games section, you can specify which programs the user can access.
So what does this all look like to the affected user? When you log on with an account to which parental controls
have been applied, you'll see some restrictions based on your activities. For example, if you attempt to navigate to a blocked Web site in IE 7, you'll see a message explaining why you can't do so (Refer Pic below).
And of course,attempting to logon to the account during a blocked time period will not workout!
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