Windows Vista Parental Control features detailed

In the midst of this vigorous technological wave, has anyone considered our children?

Microsoft has taken it into account. The WindowsVista system integrates a powerful and easy-to-use parental Control feature (parental Controls) that anyone can use to prevent their children or other unauthorized users from accessing certain resources on the computer. Anyone with system administrator privileges can prohibit other users who use standard account permissions from downloading files from the Internet, running specific computer games or programs, or banning them from using computers at some point in the day, or doing other things like that.

Of course, we're talking about a whole new operating system and thousands of old programs, so there must be a lot of holes in this control system. In some cases, although your own actions do not have any errors, but your child does not need to undergo rigorous training, but also on the computer to find the things you are trying to hide. For example, in some cases, the Vista system does not recognize that a computer game is actually a "game", so you have to use it as an application to screen. Further, the parent control feature of the Vista operating system is based on user Account Control (UAC), so it is just as "insured" as your system administrator account password.

In other cases, while it should be valid, parental controls still lose "protection" of certain content and access to the computer, such as blocking the content of the DVD movie as it is rated by the film industry. So if you really want to effectively stop your child from discovering your favorite erotic DVD movie, hide it in the depths of the drawer and add a solid big lock to the drawer.

Still, if you want to keep your kids away from unwanted content in Windows, parental control is still the most "friendly" way to go. In the same way, with the help of this function, in a way, you can also prevent your employees from wasting valuable working hours on computer games or other online content that is out of bounds (assuming they are using a vista version of the accompanying parental control feature; Because, to draw attention, Vista The commercial version of the system (Business Edition) does not have parental control functions.

The parental control feature of Vista is very easy to use, and it also has a very detailed description of it in the WindowsVista help documentation. So here I'm not going to discuss exactly where to find it in the system and turn it on. Instead, I'll talk here about how you can expect to use this feature to help you do what you want to do, and you can't expect it to help you accomplish something in order to manage your computer.

What can the parental control function of Vista system do and what can not be done

To use the Parental controls on Vista, of course, you first need a computer with Windows Vista system installed, plus at least one system administrator account and at least one standard account. For Vista administrators, it's easy to create related user accounts, you just go to the Control Panel, click the "User account and Home security" option on the home page of the control Panel, and then click on the user account. From here, you can create or delete a user account on your computer.