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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Administration / March 2007Parental control time limits
Can the parental conrol in Vista limit computer use to say 3 hours a day or does it just prevent use outside certain times. Thanks, Theo Carr-Brion Only selected hours.  SignatureJason Windows Vista RTM MS Office 2007 RTM Can the parental conrol in Vista limit computer use to say 3 hours a day or does it just prevent use outside certain times. Thanks, Theo Carr-Brion Yes. You select the hours that are not allowed, on a 7 day/24 hour calendar. Any hours not selected will be allowed. As a child nears the end of an approved time period, they receive a 15-minute and a 1-minute notification that their time is about toexpire. If their time ends before they log off the computer, Windows Vista suspends their session and displays the login screen so another user can use the computer. The child's session stays active in the background, however, so the next time they log on, they can pick up where they left off without losing any of their work. Try it for yourself. Open Control Panel/User Accounts and click the Parental Controls link in the left sidebar. Set up a "test" user and fiddle with the settings. Log off your account and log on with the test account to see the effects. Open Help and Support and search for Parental Controls for the instructions. SignatureRonnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User > Can the parental conrol in Vista limit computer use to say 3 hours a day > or does it just prevent use outside certain times. > > Thanks, > > Theo Carr-Brion > Yes. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Open Help and Support and search for Parental Controls for the > instructions. Thanks, Unfortunately this it not want I want. My problem, as a parent, is that children spend far too long on the computer and say everything else is boring. I would like to limit them to 3 hours a day to be used at any time. It is easy to say they can't use it at particular times. It is hard to say they have been on too long without carefully monitoring and timing them, which is not practical. Theo Carr-Brion I doubt that you'll find any solution like you described, even with third party applications. SignatureRonnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User >> Yes. >> [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Theo Carr-Brion > I doubt that you'll find any solution like you described, even with > third party applications. There are several third party offerings that do this. I contacted the makers of the one I currently use and they said it might be a few months before they can support Vista. I have found another that says it works on Vista and I shall try it when I have more time. I was hoping Vista would do it without me having to pay for other software. As it has the time schedule it would be very easy to add a daily time limit. Theo Carr-Brion We use Cyber Patrol and have been for over a year now. Very easy, very powerful. We really like it since we can set up total allowed time per day (this comes in very handy since we allow them a little more time on the weekends). Look at the site and see what they offer. We had a problem with World of Warcraft (it somehow was getting around the time limits) so we emailed their tech support and within an hour we had an answer on how to add that to the time limit policy. Now of course we are using this on an XP Pro System but per there tech support, they will be supporting Vista after it's launched at the end of the month. We really like it. //David Shell/GUI MVP > Can the parental conrol in Vista limit computer use to say 3 hours a day > or does it just prevent use outside certain times. > > Thanks, > > Theo Carr-Brion > We use Cyber Patrol and have been for over a year now. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > comes in very handy since we allow them a little more time on the > weekends). I have looked at the web site and it looks good. How does it monitor and impose the time limits? Does it allow internet access and restriced program access for a given time after the user logs on or does it try to to measure how long the restricted programs have been used? The manual appears to suggest the latter but I can't see how it could work. Thank you, Theo Carr-Brion My only other suggestion, is that if you want that sort of feature to be part of Vista, is contact Microsoft through their site and let them know what you are looking for. They may not contact you back, but it will be helpful for them to know what people want and then you may see it in a repair of service update. > > We use Cyber Patrol and have been for over a year now. > > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Theo Carr-Brion 'Complicated Parental Controls in Windows Vista' (http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=716240) Signaturet.j. http://forums.techarena.in |
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