How to install parental controls

Technology, especially computers, is a window to the world. Access to the Internet and various software is a way to practice open thinking in the comfort of your home. These tools are important assets for children’s intellectual development, but it should not be forgotten that children do not always have sufficient discrimination to protect them from technical dangers. Especially threatening the danger and psychology of young children.

How does parental control work?

On a computer running Windows, the role of parental controls is very simple. It allows the user performing the control to appropriately restrict or authorize one or more users’ access to various software. It can also prevent standard users from using the computer for more than a certain period of time.

Parental control is intended for parents to use, and it becomes an ideal way to control children’s usage time and their activities on the computer. Various parental control settings can be specific to each controlled user account. However, to successfully implement parental control, certain conditions must be met.

Parental control activation program

First of all, you should know that parental control can only be performed on standard users, and can only be performed by users with administrator status. To access parental controls, the process remains the same on the most common versions of Windows.

After clicking the « Start » button, you must open the « Control Panel », then open the « Account and User Protection » menu, and finally open the « Configure Parental Controls for Users ».

Then, you must select the user account whose parental control settings you want to change from the available accounts. If you don’t have a standard user account yet, click « Create User Account » to create one.

Under the « Parental Controls » menu, click « Enabled, current settings are applied ».

At this stage, it is a matter of setting up parental control itself. Therefore, certain settings can modify the time limit by changing the time that children log in day after day. You can also choose which games will be blocked and which games your child can play. It is also possible to prevent the child’s user account from starting certain programs.

Here you will find the process of Windows Vista.

You must remember

Because these changes affect computer settings, it may be necessary to enter a password or provide confirmation after certain steps. If this is the case, please provide the above confirmation without hesitation, otherwise the process will not succeed.

However, when it comes to websites, the default Windows parental controls cannot work on a case-by-case basis. There are various parental control software for Internet browsing, such as Qustodio, which can achieve more precise control. However, parental control only works when the child is logged in to his session. Therefore, remember to protect your computer by locking out your account when you are not using it.