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Chapter 18: Managing User Accounts and Parental Controls

Configuring Reminders for Parental Controls

By default, when you configure parental controls, you are reminded weekly to read

activity reports. If you want to change the way reminders are used, follow these

steps:

1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.

2. In the Control Panel, click the User Accounts and Family Safety heading and

then click User Accounts.

3. On the User Accounts page, click “Manage another account.”

4. Click “Set up Parental Controls.”

5. In the left panel of the main Parental Controls page, click “Family safety options.”

6. On the Family Safety Options page, shown in Figure 18-21, specify how often

you would like to be reminded to read activity reports. You can specify that you

want to be notified weekly, daily, or never.

7. Click OK.

Configuring Web Restrictions

Web restrictions determine what web sites and what types of content to allow. If

you’ve turned on parental controls, some web restrictions are already enforced auto-

matically. To configure other restrictions or to change how web restrictions are used,

follow these steps:

1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.

2. In the Control Panel, click the User Accounts and Family Safety heading and

then click User Accounts.

Figure 18-20. Choosing a game rating system

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3. On the User Accounts page, click “Manage another account.”

4. Click “Set up Parental Controls” and then click the account you want to restrict.

5. On the “Set up how...will use the computer” page, click Windows Vista Web

Filter under Windows Settings.

6. On the “Which parts of the Internet can...visit?” page, shown in Figure 18-22,

the “Block some websites or content” option is selected automatically. When

this setting is selected, you can use the additional options to manage the level of

restriction. If you don’t want to restrict web access, select “Allow all websites

and content,” click OK, and skip the remaining steps.

Figure 18-21. Configuring reminders for activity reports

Figure 18-22. Configuring web restrictions