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How do I turn on Parental Controls in Windows Vista?I am running Windows Vista on the family computer, which means that there are several different users. Is there a way for me to prevent other family members from accessing my school and work files or limiting access to the computer? I’ve heard Windows Vista provides some sort of feature to do this? Windows Vista offers a new feature called Parental Controls that allow the Windows administrator designate access rights for a number of components for each user set up on your computer. Assuming that you are the administrator, you should create a separate user account for each family member using the computer. In addition to security and Parental Controls reasons, keeping separate accounts also make sure that each user can keep his or her documents separate, thereby reducing the risk of accidental deletion, etc. To set up Parental Controls: 1. Go to the Control Panel from the Windows Start menu. 
Once you modify any of these settings, the updated settings appear with their updated settings on the right-side of the screen.  To disable settings, simply click Off in the Parental Controls section in the above screen. This tip was contributed by Derek Torres, co-author of the splendid new book The Unofficial Guide to Windows Vista. Thanks, Derek!
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I am administrator on my new Vista PC. My teenage daughter has a user account. I only want to impose time limits using the parental controls, which is the only restriction I set up. However, she is unable to download anything without administrator password. Is there anyway I can allow downloads without administrator permission? Hope you can help me. It will solve a rather large dilemma in my otherwise happy household. BTW...Merry Christmas!! Posted by: Elaine at December 26, 2007 1:03 PMI set parental controls in windows vista for guest and now it is blocking me out of everything that so I have to type in a password on every site I go to as none are rated... and I can't turn it off as I am the admin of the computer so when i click on my icon it says i cant add parental control because I am the admin yet parental controls are on mine. How to I disable this/ or turn it off or do I have to restore the system to a prior day? Will restoring it even take this parental control off ? Posted by: LInda Hull at May 19, 2008 1:55 AMneed help ex girlfriend made my account basic and hers admina and set my time limit to 3 hours i cant do anything and need to know how to reverse it without reinstalling anything is there a backdoor account to vista i can access and change what she did...i really need help badly as i use this computer for work I have set up Vista Parental Controls and have NOT checked the Unrateable Content button under custom web settings. Yet, both my kid' accounts get blocked from anything with unratable content. Sounds like a Vista error. Comments? Solutions? Ken Posted by: Ken at June 20, 2009 11:30 AMI have new laptop with Vista setup partenal controls NOW all sites require password. I have tried to turn off cant seem to do. I also deleted user account all together still have to have password for all sites under administrator. Please help Posted by: Kim at August 31, 2009 9:05 AMyes,i turned off the parental control from my admin user,but it still says to put the dmin password. why ? Posted by: geordy at December 5, 2009 6:57 PMI was having the same problem and browsing through the comments. No one solved my problem and I was very stressed and maybe so are you right now. Then I typed in "cisco parental control" and got the correct instructions and set off the parental control in like five minutes. Posted by: akshat at May 28, 2010 2:46 AMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
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