Disabling A PC for Curfew

[Brian K]

OPen command prompt [Start > Run >cmd]
Type this:
net user ayush /times:m-t,4am-5am

This will set the time limit [Only allow Monday to Tuesday and only
between 4-5 am] for user account ayush. Modify it as you like. For
complete list of how to do it, type this in command prompt:
net help user
and scroll down to /times:
You can check after doing this by typing this:
net user ayush
where ayush is the user name

I want to give my nephew a PC for his room. Is there a way to set
it up so it shuts down at midnight every nite and refuses to
function tell 7 am? Also, is there anyway to remotely tell it to
lock down such as when he is grounded?

I already have my Internet router setup to shut off Internet access
at midnight but want the entire PC disabled if possible. He seems
to miss alot of school lately and my attitude if he is too sick for
school he is too sick to play on the computer for a few days.

Looking for software or maybe a device that does this.

Matt

If I'm not mistaken, that will only work on servers?

Pop

Back in the non PC technical days, my sister and I used to take a
flashlight and read under the covers in our beds. We thought we were
being smart. Our parents had told us not to do this, and go to bed at
lights out time. The next morning with burning blood shot eyes and
headaches we went about our chores and things that kids do. We
complained when sounds were too loud. My mom replied, "You stayed up
beyond your bed time reading. I told you not to. You went against my
advice. Now, you'll just have to experience the results of your
actions." Mom or dad did not confiscate our books, or flashlights. My
sister and I decided to spite them...we did it again. We felt even more
crappy the next day. There was no sympathy from mom or dad. That night
our flashlights and books stayed on our night stands. The lights went
out in our bed rooms and we went to sleep, refreshed the next day.

As long as there wasn't any threat to life or limb that's how my parents
dealt with us. There were no bail outs, no guilt trips, no exceptions.
If you went against parental advice or orders - you reap the results.

What is a computer to a kid than a bigger book with a flashlight? If a
parent makes it a point of knowing all their kids friends both real time
and online, making their kids aware of how sexual predators
operate...the rest will take care of itself.

I disagree with methods to turn the computer off. The decision to do so
is taken away from the child. The message given by the parents is "I
can't trust you." The child learns to mistrust his parents in return.
Making something "forbidden" makes it that much more attractive.

Children I've raised were trusted to behave in an honest and logical
manner. They were told the facts about cigarettes, drugs, sex and
sexual predators. Free choice was never taken away. Even when they
were acting out, they had the choice. They could continue on and get
the results or they could choose to behave in a more desirable manner
and get better results.

Call it operant conditioning, tough love. It's basically how life
works, do the right thing and you These are values I've learned from
my parents. These are values I've passed on.

Yeah, I went a little wild in college. Most kids do. But I never did
anything for which I wasn't willing to accept the consequences. That's
it. if you impart good values to your kids, they will carry them through
out life. If you try controlling your kid with contrivances, those kids
will learn to circumvent them. In extreme cases they may grow to become
sociopaths. i.e. "I know from right and wrong but, it doesn't apply to me."

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[Anthony Buckland]

[clip] ...
As long as there wasn't any threat to life or limb that's how my parents
dealt with us. There were no bail outs, no guilt trips, no exceptions.
If you went against parental advice or orders - you reap the results.

What is a computer to a kid than a bigger book with a flashlight? If a
parent makes it a point of knowing all their kids friends both real time
and online, making their kids aware of how sexual predators operate...the
rest will take care of itself.

I disagree with methods to turn the computer off. The decision to do so
is taken away from the child. The message given by the parents is "I
can't trust you." The child learns to mistrust his parents in return.
Making something "forbidden" makes it that much more attractive.
...

The problem is that a child with a computer can do immeasurably more
damage, particularly if he can find a parent's credit card, than one
with a flashlight under a sheet. One of the most obvious ways is to
respond to a "social engineering" malicious message with enough
information to get Daddy's identity stolen, causing Daddy big, if
_possibly_ temporary, financial damage and years of attempts to
completely clear his name. Something less cataclysmic would be to
manage to let a virus into Daddy's machine before he saves his last
update to an important file. Then there's accessing a site which, even
to a streetwise modern kid, causes psychological damage wrecking
a possibly long period of normal more or less happy childhood and
causing Daddy to spend a lot of money on therapists. I could go on
for a while, but you hopefully get the idea.

 

[Steve Stone]

My netgear router has options to turn off access to specific IP addresses on
the home LAN based on a schedule.
You can also have the router assign specific IP's to MAC addresses so you
don't have to screw around with traditional static IP configurations.