Window 7 Lesson -1)-J

Using Parental Controls

Windows 7 offers various Parental Controls to help you control the types of content that your children can access. You can place parental controls on any Standard account, and each account can have different settings. If you have more than one child, each child can have access to different types of content, and you can always change the Parental Controls settings as your child gets older.

Learn more about Parential Controls in this video.

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Before You Set Up Parental Controls

You'll need to create an account for your child, if you haven't already. It should be a Standard account; you can't apply Parental Controls to an Administrator account.

When you're setting up Parental Controls, it doesn't matter which account you're logged into, but if you're logged into a Standard account, then you'll need to provide an Administrator password before making any changes.

Make sure that your child does not know your Administrator password, as it would allow them to change or disable Parental Controls for any user account.

Setting up Parental Controls

1. Go to your Control Panel from the Start Menu.
2. Click Set up parental controls for any user.
   Getting to Parental Controls
3. Click on any Standard Account.
   Choose an account
4. Click On to turn Parental Controls on.
   Parental Controls main page
5. Now you can click Time limits, Games or Allow and block specific programs to set the Parental Controls. We'll explore each of these on the next page.