How Can I Turn On Or Turn Off Parental Control In Windows Vista And 7

How Can I Turn On Or Turn Off Parental Control In Windows Vista And 7? If your kids are spending too much time on the computer or playing violent games such as Grand Thief Auto, perhaps it is time to make use of the parental control feature in Windows Vista and 7.

Parental Control In Windows 7

In Windows 7, click on the Windows Button (orb), and type ‘Parental Controls’ into the search box. A list will appear on the start menu, proceed to choose ‘Parental Controls’.

You’ll need administrative access to change the settings, you are able to:

• Control when your kids can use the computer and the duration
• Web filtering has been improved through Windows Live
• Set limits on games based on the ratings

Parental Control In Windows Vista

• Go to Control Panel in Vista by navigating to Start (Windows button) -> Control Panel.
• Click on User Accounts and Family Safety.
• Click on the tab that says Parental Controls.
• The User Account Control warning will pop up – click on Continue at this prompt.
• Select the particular User Account on which you want to enforce Parental Controls.
• Now, you will be taken to a page where you can set the different parameters of the Parental Controls feature. First, to the left, you have select the options for Parental Controls: On, enforce current settings, and Activity Reporting: On, collect information about computer usage.
• After this, go through the four options below – Windows Vista Web Filter, Time Limits, Games, Allow and block specific programs – and adjust the parameters as per your needs.
• Once you are done, click on OK in the Parental Controls window.

As for parental controls in Windows XP, sorry folks, you’ll need a third party software. Previously we wrote a short article on filtering the internet with various free software.

How To Tweak And Speed Up Windows 7 Performance, UAC, And Group Policy

Want to speed up Windows 7 performance? Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a simple and easy to use utility that allows you to enable a few hidden features in Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate. Here are some of the requirements, this application runs on 32 bit and with UAC disabled. Available tweaks:

• Add “Copy To” option in files and folders context menu, so that you can easily copy them to other locations
• Disable “search on Internet” prompt in “Open with” window so that it directly opens the program list
• Decrease menus show delay time, it’ll show the sub-menus fast when you select their parent menu
• Speeds up taskbar thumbnail preview by reducing the mouse hover time delay
• Disable the low disk space check so that you don’t get the annoying low disk space notification in system tray
• Add “Take Ownership” option in files and folders context menu so that you can easily take ownership of files and folders in case you want to replace them for customization purpose
• Set Windows to automatically end task of programs which are either hanged or taking longer time than expected to exit
• Speed up the Explorer navigation by disabling network printers and network scheduled tasks
• Disables (Turn Off) Annoying UAC (User Account Control) and suppress UAC consent prompt dialog

Here is no install process, just unzip to any folder and run it.By highlighting a row from the tweak list, you will get an explanation about this tweak inside the information window.

How To Encrypt And Protect Your Files Or Folders In Windows

How to hide or lock your secret folder and files from others? Do you know that Windows has a build in encrypt feature? Have you ever wonder how can you able to simplify the encrypt or decrypt process in right click context menu instead of going through these hassle steps? Try the following step by step tutorial:

Open notepad
Copy the following string and paste it into notepad
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced]
“EncryptionContextMenu”=dword:00000001

Save the notepad as “Encrypt.reg” with Save as type is “All Files”
Double click the registry file, continue with UAC prompt and click OK to confirm you wish to perform the action
The only trouble is, this encrypt works without a password, meaning to say someone else who has access to your computer could easily decrypt your files and folder. It only works to prevent unauthorized access if there is a hard disk swap or a transfer of file to another computer.

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