Understanding Parental Controls on Windows Vista

Parental Control is one of the new features in Windows Vista. As the name says, it is very useful for parents to view their children's computer activity as well as controlling how they use computer.


Here what you can do using Parental Controls:

- Set specific time limits on your children's computer use.
You can set time limits to control when children are allowed to log on to the computer. Time limits prevent children from logging on during specified hours. You can set different logon hours for every day of the week. If they are logged on when their allotted time ends, they will be automatically logged off.

- Prevent your children from playing games you don't want them to play.
Control access to games, choose an age rating level, choose the types of content you want to block, and decide whether you want to allow or block specific games.

- Set limits for how your children use the web.
You can restrict the websites that children visit, check an age rating, indicate whether you want to allow file downloads, and set up which content you want the content filters to block and allow. You can also block or allow specific websites.

- Keep your children from running specific programs.
Prevent children from running programs that you don't want them to run.

- Set up activity reports to keep a record of your child's computer and online activities.
You can see everything your children do on your computer, such as websites they've accessed and programs and games they've opened.

Source: Windows Vista Documentation