Comments on: Prevent users from deleting Internet Explorer 7 Browsing History

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:49:27 +0000

Sorry to jump on an old topic here, but I am having trouble with this. When I have opened my group policy editor, it does not show any IE options under the User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> ( ) then the only options that are listed are for Search, Windows Media Player and Windows Updates.

In other words the Internet Explorer node is not visible at all. What am I doing wrong with the policy editor?

Thanks!!

By: demogeek

demogeek — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:47:16 +0000

Chinenye – Windows Vista has improved a lot on the Parental Control capabilities of Windows XP. I'm not sure what Parental Control methodology you tried but if you've used the Internet Explorer's Content Advisor feature along with Windows Media Player's parental control features and instant messengers' parental control features then that's pretty much what you can do with Windows XP.

I'm sure you can buy third party softwares to get some more control over the process. Agian, not all third party Parental Control softwares are good enough. Some are an embarrassment for the $$$ that it sells. But if you don't want to take your wallet out for those softwares then I think the above mentioned way along with some common-sense approach to your kids online activities would be the way to go I guess. I'm not sure if I've answered to your expectation but will see if I can explain it on another post here at DemoGeek.com

Thanks for asking.

By: Chinenye

Chinenye — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:57:35 +0000

Great tip! My challenge is the kids use Windows XP on an Asus netbook. Any way to mak ethis work on this OS? tried to use Windows Parental Control but was irritated by having to unblock each and every site. AND once on Google the kids can go anywhere – Google even throws up links when they look up "sex" for science homework!

By: TheGeek

TheGeek — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:11:37 +0000

Amy – I'm not sure what you did exactly but I'm hoping that you didn't type-in on the search box on the Windows Start menu. If you didn't do it this way, click on the Start button and on the menu that comes-in you should be able to see a Search box and make sure you type-in on that box and then press Enter.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:33:07 +0000

I tried going to the start menu and typing in gpedit.msc and it just brought up another tab that said Internet Explorer cannot display this page. What did I do wrong? What can I do to fix this?