New Article: Windows Vista Parental Controls

Columnist Joli Ballew discusses managing your children’s computer activities
with Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...lcontrols.mspx

Ask questions or post comments about the article here.

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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/windowsvist...lcontrols.mspx
>
> Ask questions or post comments about the article here.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> K Viste
> Site Manager
> Filter at Microsoft
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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/windowsvist...lcontrols.mspx
>
> Ask questions or post comments about the article here.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> K Viste
> Site Manager
> Filter at Microsoft
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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:
>

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/windowsvist...lcontrols.mspx
>
> Ask questions or post comments about the article here.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> K Viste
> Site Manager
> Filter at Microsoft
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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:
>

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?


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Many Thanks

Gordon Johnson


"Joli Ballew" wrote:

> I'm here to discuss this if anyone has any questions! Joli
>
> "kmv" 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:
>

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:
>

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.

Regards