Windows 8 family safety website

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Click Search. Click Settings. Enter Family Safety. In the left pane, click Set up Family Safety for any user. In the next window, click the account for which you want to control access rights and restrictions.

Leave the settings unchanged, and click Web filtering to determine which web contents this person can display. Make sure that the [ Click Set web filtering level. In the next window, accept the default Online communication setting, or select the Designed for children option.

In the left pane, click Allow or Block Websites to create a list of allowed or blocked web pages, or click User Settings to edit more settings. Click Time limits to select the days and times that your children can access the PC. Based on the options on the Time Allowance tab, you can determine how many hours and minutes your children can use the PC on weekdays and weekends. Based on the options on the Curfew tab, you can determine the times for each day when this person is not allowed to use the PC at all.

You had a product which worked as expected then broke it. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit. Hi Kevin, Windows 8. May I asked what have you try? There are a couple of ways that you can manage a Windows Account that are not ties to a Microsoft account, the only prerequisites are: 1 The parent's you Windows Admin account as to be tied to a Microsoft account.

I believe in Windows 8. Below are a couple of ways to manage a Windows Account that does not have Microsoft Account ties with it. To do this, on the PC, search for Your account settings and select it from the results, click on Other accounts, select the account in question and click on Edit, then select Child. When prompt to sign into the Family Safety website, enter your credential and verify the child is added to the family.

Concerning the 1st prerequisite, is there a way to tie a Microsoft account to my local Windows Admin account in a manner similar to what Windows 8 allowed? Windows 8 allowed a Microsoft account to be associated with a Windows local account and thus, the Family Safety settings seemed to be manageable from the website. In Windows 8. I don't care to do this. It just makes me uncomfortable to have my computers administrator accounts be Internet based. Since there seems to be no other way to associate my local account anymore with a Microsoft account in Windows 8.

I did see the Child account setting when I created their accounts, so they are set that way and I can manage them locally okay. However, I miss being able to set web filters for both kids at the same time and it's annoying that the settings don't replicate to other computers like they used to with Windows 8. The other Windows 8. If there's no way to do this apart from switching my account to a Microsoft account, then I suppose that's something I'll have to do without.

I hope Microsoft will reconsider this in a future version, though. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. The purpose of this document is to give an overview of the changes to the Windows Parental Controls in Windows 8 and to enable third-party parental control solution providers to take advantage of these changes.

This document assumes readers' familiarity with Parental Controls for Windows 7 and Windows Vista and will only reflect changes made to this functionality in Windows 8 that are relevant for third-party parental control solutions development. Changes to Parental Controls introduced in Windows 8 continue the overarching goal of introducing feature enhancements and at the same time promoting third-party parental control solutions' coexistence with the in-box functionality.