Windows 8

Controls & Settings guide

Windows 8 Parental Controls allows you to restrict web content including viewing activity reports to see what sites your child has visited. Time limits, Windows Store and game restrictions, plus app restrictions.

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What do I need?

A new account for the child and Password

Safety settings

Inappropriate content

Online games

Timer

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Step by step instructions

Take the mouse to bottom right corner to bring up the navigation panel

Click on ‘Settings’

Then select ‘Change PC settings’

Select ‘Users’

Select ‘Add user’

Insert Windows Email address

Then tick the ‘Childs Account’ box

Switch to your child’s account

Insert the password to start making account changes

From the start screen, just type out control panel and press enter

This will bring you up to the control panel folder.

Select ‘User Accounts’

Select the new child’s User account

They select ‘Set up Family Safety’

Change this account to administrator

This will allow you to change settings on the account

Now open up the child’s user account

Now you have access to restrict web content

This includes viewing activity reports to see what sites your child has visited. Time limits, Windows Store and game restrictions, plus app restrictions.