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Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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I'm here to discuss this if anyone has any questions! Joli
"kmv" wrote:

Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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I have a question.
These features look very promising.
But wouldn't it be possible to use the activity reports as almost keyloggers. So people could know exactly what you were doing on your pc without you knowing.

"kmv" wrote:

Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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I'm sure if that is or becomes a security issue, Microsoft will address it. As it stands, to read the security report you'd have to log on as an administrator with an administrator's password anyway, which often is security enough....joli
"PW" wrote:

I have a question.
These features look very promising.
But wouldn't it be possible to use the activity reports as almost keyloggers. So people could know exactly what you were doing on your pc without you knowing.

"kmv" wrote:
Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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Is there a way to get an "Activity Report" for an Administrator account?
It would be interesting to track my own usage or the usage of another Administrator on the PC. The only work around that I see is to use Windows Vista as a Standard User with the Parental Controls on, but with limited restrictions.
Thanks in Advance.
"kmv" wrote:

Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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The Vista build I'm working with still has limited parental control functionality. We'll have to wait until there's more to work with to figure these kinds of things out.
Joli
"Christopher Williams" wrote:

Is there a way to get an "Activity Report" for an Administrator account?
It would be interesting to track my own usage or the usage of another Administrator on the PC. The only work around that I see is to use Windows Vista as a Standard User with the Parental Controls on, but with limited restrictions.
Thanks in Advance.
"kmv" wrote:
Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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Hi
I've set up two accounts with parental controls in place, but on the activity report it does not seem to display any email's that have been received or sent. I am using outlook 2007 beta.
Any thoughts?
-- Many Thanks
Gordon Johnson
"Joli Ballew" wrote:

I'm here to discuss this if anyone has any questions! Joli
"kmv" wrote:
Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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The email reporting is all opt in and so far no programs have written bits to write to the channels for it to be logged.
David - programmer Windows Parental Controls
"Lord Gee" wrote:

Hi
I've set up two accounts with parental controls in place, but on the activity report it does not seem to display any email's that have been received or sent. I am using outlook 2007 beta.
Any thoughts?
-- Many Thanks
Gordon Johnson
"Joli Ballew" wrote:
I'm here to discuss this if anyone has any questions! Joli
"kmv" wrote:
Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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No, there is no way to get an activity report for an admin account. This will never be something parental contols will do, since we are targeting LUA accounts and not admin accounts. You could always login mostly as a LUA :)
David - software engineer Windows Parental Controls.
"Christopher Williams" wrote:

Is there a way to get an "Activity Report" for an Administrator account?
It would be interesting to track my own usage or the usage of another Administrator on the PC. The only work around that I see is to use Windows Vista as a Standard User with the Parental Controls on, but with limited restrictions.
Thanks in Advance.
"kmv" wrote:
Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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Will it be possible to limit a childs computer usage (by time) but still within a range? For example : a maximum of 2 hours usage between 3:30pm and 8:30pm.
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Will it be possible to limit a childs computer usage (by time) but still within a range? For example : a maximum of 2 hours usage between 3:30pm and 8:30pm.

No. You can only control what hours an account can be logged in, not the length of time they can remain logged in during a timespan.
However, this is a great idea! You should send it to Microsoft using the Feedback link on your desktop.
- JB

Will do. This would certainly be a very welcome feature. My children would (if allowed) go on the computer 24/7. I however allow them 2 hours/day after school Monday - Friday (3:30pm-8:30pm), and 5 hours/day at a weekend (8:30am-9:30pm Saturday, 8:30am-8:30pm Sunday). I currently use a 3rd party application to enforce this and allows them their quota in measured chunks (max 2 hours in any one session, with an enforced 2 hour break). Since installing this software, I've stopped worrying about my kids turning into smelly nerds with no social life. I now worry about them out on the street, taking drugs, sniffing glue and mugging old ladies.
Ho hum !
"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

Will it be possible to limit a childs computer usage (by time) but still within a range? For example : a maximum of 2 hours usage between 3:30pm and 8:30pm.
No. You can only control what hours an account can be logged in, not the length of time they can remain logged in during a timespan.
However, this is a great idea! You should send it to Microsoft using the Feedback link on your desktop.
- JB

I am also looking for a way to set a quota and have the child limted to x hours per day / week / month. I was hoping Vista would resolve this. Having time restictions when a user can be logged in is nice but it will not stop the current headache. 3rd Party applications like softwaretime look promising but they do not use the user profile thus you have to login twice. If this functionality was added to Vista it would incent me to move up from XP.
Wayne
"Byron Followell" wrote:

Max,
This has been a major concern of mine as my previous post shows and I plan to suggest this too. You let your kids have a lot more time than I do. Of course, I have four kids and there just isn't enough time in the day for everyone to get as much computer time as they feel they deserve and still leave a little time for Dad! Anyway, maybe if enough of us suggest this, they'll look into this for SP1 or something. This almost seems like a very basic parental control but maybe that's just me. I'm certain there are plenty of others who feel this or that feature is missing and should be basic, common sense parental control features.
Anyway, I'm curious what third party app you use to help you with this. If you could post here I'd be most appreciative. Thanks.
Sincerely, - Byron Followell
"Max Factor" wrote:
Will do. This would certainly be a very welcome feature. My children would (if allowed) go on the computer 24/7. I however allow them 2 hours/day after school Monday - Friday (3:30pm-8:30pm), and 5 hours/day at a weekend (8:30am-9:30pm Saturday, 8:30am-8:30pm Sunday). I currently use a 3rd party application to enforce this and allows them their quota in measured chunks (max 2 hours in any one session, with an enforced 2 hour break). Since installing this software, I've stopped worrying about my kids turning into smelly nerds with no social life. I now worry about them out on the street, taking drugs, sniffing glue and mugging old ladies.
Ho hum !
"Jimmy Brush" wrote:
Will it be possible to limit a childs computer usage (by time) but still within a range? For example : a maximum of 2 hours usage between 3:30pm and 8:30pm.
No. You can only control what hours an account can be logged in, not the length of time they can remain logged in during a timespan.
However, this is a great idea! You should send it to Microsoft using the Feedback link on your desktop.
- JB

Now I have setup windows vista home premium and use windows-mail that comes with it.....but still don't get any email activity shown on the activity report..... And aslo I use Live messenger, and get the same results there..... Dose those 2 programs not suport those activity reports?? Why have the option in the report if Microsoft it self dosne't suport it's own programs??
"David Bennett" wrote:

The email reporting is all opt in and so far no programs have written bits to write to the channels for it to be logged.
David - programmer Windows Parental Controls
"Lord Gee" wrote:
Hi
I've set up two accounts with parental controls in place, but on the activity report it does not seem to display any email's that have been received or sent. I am using outlook 2007 beta.
Any thoughts?
-- Many Thanks
Gordon Johnson
"Joli Ballew" wrote:
I'm here to discuss this if anyone has any questions! Joli
"kmv" wrote:
Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities with Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/parentalcontrols.mspx
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Byron
I fully agree on time spent I know I can get this with several third party apps I would like to see this in Vista. I recently installed the released version. I do have a concern after using it as it relates to IM. It does not report activity in MSN Messenger.
Wayne
"Byron Followell" wrote:

Well, I needed to reformat my computer since it had been acting up for a while and I hadn't done it in almost a year. It's really nice to have a nice, clean system, for as long as it lasts of course. While I was at it, I went ahead and setup a dual boot with Windows Vista RC1. I wanted to play around with it a little and learn my way around before I purchase in the spring and I have to say I've been pleased so far. I really like what I've seen of the interface but I haven't tried any of my games or apps yet so we'll see how that goes later.
Anyway, I setup accounts for my four kids and went to checkout one of my most anxiously anticipated features: parental controls. While I'm pleased for the most part, I do see one thing that I feel is missing from the time limits. While I do like limiting the hours that my kids can be on the computer, I also limit the amount of time they are allowed to use the computer each day. While parental controls takes care of the "hours of use" issue, it does nothing to limit the amount of time each account can use the computer each day. I realize that these controls can't take over my parenting responsibility for me but for this feature to have gone so far and, as I see it, stop just short of what I needed, almost seems a tragedy. Of course, I'm certain there are plenty of other people out there that have some other feature that they feel is missing and Microsoft can't give us everything but this really seems to me to be almost basic funtionality for parental controls.
What's everyone else think? Opinions?
Maybe this is something they can a later, maybe in SP1 or something. If anyone from Microsoft is listening out there, please take notes and consider this a strongly requested feature. Thanks for listening.
Sincerely, - Byron Followell

hello I've a little prob if i log in as an administrator i can't play e.g hell gate london 'cause it writes parental conrols blocks it
any ideas??