Comments on: Use Windows Vista’s Parental Controls to keep your kids safe

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:59:28 +0000

So I blocked youtube via Vista AND Cyberpatrol. Lo and behold, my son is watching a youtube video. Turns out his friend was emailing him links to youtube videos and if he launched youtube from an emailed link, voila, parental controls circumvented. Is there a way around this? Blocking google is impractical and I'm not going to block his email website. Why doesn't parental controls work against a weblink?

By: An angry teenager

An angry teenager — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:09:58 +0000

I would like to inform you that, as any other security software windows parental control is full of holes that may be exploited by a child who knows anything about computers, or has friends that do. such as running all files from a FAT drive, and tweaking system time, which are the simplest methods of bypassing program limits and time restrictions. So please, don't make your child angry, it becomes extremely annoying when your run time environment (among other things) are blocked by parental control software.

By: Martin Sandbach

Martin Sandbach — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:25:29 +0000

Using the new tools in Vista and Windows 7 is a good idea to help filter content from children. But I would also suggest using Open DNS because it is free, there is no software to install, you decide what level of filter you want and you can use it at a router level to block all machines in your home network I have created an instruction video on setting it up. It is found here. http://www.helpviavideo.com/watch.php?vidid=38

By: glen

glen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:29:27 +0000

How do i add an email accoun to the email section of parental controlls and what email programms are suported by parental controls?

By: Tanya

Tanya — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:39:50 +0000

if my teenager is being unsafe on her profile how do i get into her screen?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:27:56 +0000

hi there, my daughter goes on msn messenger, and i set up activity reports for all the applications. ie. music, instant messaging, email.

how do i get it to show up msn, and hotmail activities?

it says that no programs are supported by parental controls. please help.

By: demogeek

demogeek — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:12:33 +0000

Mel/Anna – I'm worried that Windows Vista's Parental Controls doesn't have the capability to kill a running process on a Parental Control time out. You might have to use a third party Parental Control software to do this I believe.

By: demogeek

demogeek — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:07:28 +0000

One way is to block the kid from using Google. You can do that by using the "Web Restrictions" section of Parental Controls.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:54 +0000

This is bugging me too. I could hear the game running in the background, but couldn't stop it. Had to use ctrl alt delete and close the program from the task manager. There's got to be a better way. Anna

By: DemoGeek

DemoGeek — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:30:23 +0000

Ian – one thing that comes to mind is to see if Internet Explorer's home page has been set (accidentally) to a site that's considered harm under Parental Controls radar.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:19:34 +0000

I have set my childs account to medium security, but now internet explorer will not open on his account.
Any idea why not?

By: heather

heather — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:45:10 +0000

How can you do a parental control on google??? I have vista and I did the parental control for that but you can google stuff through the google bar. How can you block your kids from doing that?

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:04:39 +0000

Your tutorial only mentioned how to control time limit on the child’s account. How do you go back into the account to close out the running applications once the account is time out?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:28:16 +0000

Is there a way to monitor instant messaging programs (like “aim”, etc) through the Vista parental controls? If not, can someone recommend a good program for that…

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By: Geoserv

Geoserv — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:39:24 +0000

STUMBLED!

Another quality post, thanks for posting.

By: TheGeek

TheGeek — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:35:31 +0000

Mathieu – I’m glad that it helped you learn more about Parental Controls in Windows Vista. Hard work does pay off, sometimes at least

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:44:04 +0000

I learned quite a few things there, I thought parental control was limited to browsing, I was not aware that you could block or allow games, choose hours of usage, allow or block certain applications and much more.

Another brilliant tutorial, thank you!