control child's logon hours

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Eric

Hello
I need to control how long our child can use the computer with Vista. But if
I enable 8 to 17 o'clock (in Parental Controls for a local account or in
Active Directory Users and Computers for a Windows 2003 domain account) then
I still cannot control how long the child is able to use the computer per
day. I want to select max. 90 minutes per day or so. Is there any 3rd party
software available for this? Or do I have to write something myself?
Eric
 
Eric said:
Hello
I need to control how long our child can use the computer with Vista.
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Have you tried talking to your child about it?

But if
I enable 8 to 17 o'clock (in Parental Controls for a local account or in
Active Directory Users and Computers for a Windows 2003 domain account) then
I still cannot control how long the child is able to use the computer per
day. I want to select max. 90 minutes per day or so. Is there any 3rd party
software available for this? Or do I have to write something myself?
Eric
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If your child is tech savvy and you insist on trying to control him or
her through technology, you are only setting yourself up for a losing
battle.

Alias
 
Hello
I need to control how long our child can use the computer with Vista. But if
I enable 8 to 17 o'clock (in Parental Controls for a local account or in
Active Directory Users and Computers for a Windows 2003 domain account) then
I still cannot control how long the child is able to use the computer per
day. I want to select max. 90 minutes per day or so.
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Poor kid...
 
Alias said:
Have you tried talking to your child about it?
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I was thinking the same thing. LOL. You're gonna frustrate the kid when the
computer shuts off after 90 minutes per day. Maybe someday he'll grow up and
rig your pacemaker to work 90 minutes per day.
 
Mario said:
I was thinking the same thing. LOL. You're gonna frustrate the kid when
the computer shuts off after 90 minutes per day. Maybe someday he'll
grow up and rig your pacemaker to work 90 minutes per day.
LOL!

Alias
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Eric ha scritto:
day. I want to select max. 90 minutes per day or so. Is there any 3rd party
software available for this? Or do I have to write something myself?
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What's this, a soccer match?

Sorry, never heard about a pc-nanny third part software with such a
feature, but you actually should listen to other answers and teach your
child how to use your PC personally. Time limits are for dumb people
that think childern are some sort of pets to grow up into a certain scheme.

The day your son will need the PC for a homework for more than 90
minutes, what will you do?

p.bes
 
Hello
I need to control how long our child can use the computer with Vista. But if
I enable 8 to 17 o'clock (in Parental Controls for a local account or in
Active Directory Users and Computers for a Windows 2003 domain account) then
I still cannot control how long the child is able to use the computer per
day. I want to select max. 90 minutes per day or so. Is there any 3rd party
software available for this? Or do I have to write something myself?
Eric
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Vista Ultimate has parental controls that allow you to restrict use.

PERHAPS THOUGH, YOU SHOULD TRY BEING A ****ING PARENT INSTEAD OF USING
THE COMPUTER, PLAYSTATION AND T.V TO BABYSIT YOUR KIDS.
 
The child is nine years old and it's certainly too much to let her playing
games for five hours a day or more (same like watching TV, but which is
easier to control). Her mother cannot control her and the PC is in her room,
so I thought a technical limit would be a good idea.
I also thought I could ask technical questions here - if I wanted answers
about children's education I would have asked somewhere else.
Eric
 
Don't worry about the other responses. This forum has more opinions than
solutions. Consider it an example of what unlimited time alone behind a
keyboard does to your social skills. :)

I did a quick google seach on: limit online time

and came up with a lot of results. AOL (www.aol.com) and www.kidswatch.com
both looked interesting.

Without knowing more specifics, instead of specifying 8:00-17:00, could you
specify the 90 minutes at a specific time? For example, 15:30-17:00 would be
"computer time".

Good luck!
 
Eric said:
Hello
I need to control how long our child can use the computer with Vista. But if
I enable 8 to 17 o'clock (in Parental Controls for a local account or in
Active Directory Users and Computers for a Windows 2003 domain account) then
I still cannot control how long the child is able to use the computer per
day. I want to select max. 90 minutes per day or so. Is there any 3rd party
software available for this? Or do I have to write something myself?
Eric
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Now that you've gotten comments from others, take a better look at the
time control in Parental Controls. You can set up the allowed time to
total 90 minutes by choosing the various blocks of time (if you really
want to be so draconian).

If the time control feature doesn't meet your needs, then yes - go ahead
and write something yourself. Consider open-sourcing it and put it on
SourceForge.


Malke
 
Eric said:
The child is nine years old and it's certainly too much to let her playing
games for five hours a day or more (same like watching TV, but which is
easier to control). Her mother cannot control her and the PC is in her room,
so I thought a technical limit would be a good idea.
I also thought I could ask technical questions here - if I wanted answers
about children's education I would have asked somewhere else.
Eric
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Well, then, when the time's up, disconnect the computer from the Internet.

Alias
 
PNutts said:
Don't worry about the other responses. This forum has more opinions than
solutions. Consider it an example of what unlimited time alone behind a
keyboard does to your social skills. :)
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That was a good one :-)

Eric , do not take our comments TOO seriously. What do you expect from
computer enthusiasts after all. We just freak out thinking what if
something like that would been applied to us at the time we were living with
parents :-)
 
Coercion never works, history proved it. The way I convinced my daughter to
spend less time watching TV was entertaining her and offering more
interesting things to do.
Stefano
 
LOL! I'm trying to remember what I would have missed out on if I was glued to
a keyboard. The model rocket with experimental matchhead payload comes to
mind. <shudder>
 
Oh yeah, those cool and dangerous pyro-experiments... One on them almost
cost me an eye. The thing didn't want to blow up so I went to check what is
the problem. Yeah, I know - STUPID. But I was a kid.

It's amazing what you can do with something as simple as piece of paper and,
bag of saltpetre. I suppose they do not use saltpetre for fertilizing
anymore so it is not as accessible as before.
 
The child is nine years old and it's certainly too much to let her playing
games for five hours a day or more (same like watching TV, but which is
easier to control). Her mother cannot control her and the PC is in her room,
so I thought a technical limit would be a good idea.
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Parenting classes would be far better.

If you can't control a girl at 9 years old, you'll be picking her up
from the Police Station by the time she's a teenager.
 
Eric said:
The child is nine years old and it's certainly too much to let her playing
games for five hours a day or more (same like watching TV, but which is
easier to control). Her mother cannot control her and the PC is in her
room, so I thought a technical limit would be a good idea.
I also thought I could ask technical questions here - if I wanted answers
about children's education I would have asked somewhere else.
Eric
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If you cannot control a 9 year old you're going to have some much worse
problems in a few years.
You should never let a 9 year old on a computer unsupervised to begin with,
particularly if it has internet.
Children should only use the computer for educational purposes, and a good
parent should be there to watch them and help them.
Kids today are growing up dysfunctional because parents plop them down in
front of a TV or computer. When I was a kid there were no computers and
parents spent time with their kids or let them use their imagination and
make their own fun.
Computers, and TVs, should not be babysitting and certainly should not be in
a child's room.
Then again, you probably know all this and don't care to be a parent any
more than most parents these days so it's surely useless to explain good
parenting practices.

Did you want to limit all computer use, or just internet use?
 
<offtopic>I *really* know about the problems that will arise. Her mother
doesn't believe me, and in the afternoon, when the kid is at the computer,
her mother is at home and has no time for her (is not her fault). There's a
long way to go if we won't separate us exactly because of these educational
differences.</offtopic>
Internet or computer use: Well, there's nothing installed, so it's
practically only the Internet. Ok, there is Minesweeper, Solitaire,...
If you meant to limit the hours in the Router, there are no better
possibilites than in Windows. And this wouldn't work, because others are
using this computer also.
Eric
 
In time control I can only set full hours.
And I don't want to be so strict to set when exactly.
If I'll write something I'll post it there.
Thanks for your tips.
Eric
 
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