Children Control allows you to control access to PC, Internet sites, programs and system functions. This handy and powerful tool is a choise #1 for parents who don't want wheir children play for hours in games, navigate on bad sites, launch unallowed programs or simply crash an operating system. This program may become invisible and may be protected by your password so nobody else can't change the settings.
Settings. You can customize and configure the general settings here: password
(to protect the program and PC form unauthorised usage), startup (if you want
program automatically starts up with operating system (for current user) you
should set a "Autostart with Windows for this user" option) and invisibility
settings (the tray icon can be hidden when program starts - just check "Hide
tray icon at startup" option). You have specify a hot-key (something like
ctrl+shift+alt+s) to be able to switch on/off invisible (stealth) mode.
Time Limits. Configure PC time limits here. If you set an "Autostart
with Windows" option at the Settings page you can lock PC at system startup
by setting a "Lock PC at system startup" option. If you set a "Lock
PC after unapproved reboot" the Children Control will lock access to PC
only if the reboot was initialized during locking. So it is strongly recommended
to check the "Autostart with Windows" and "Lock PC after unapproved
reboot" flags.
If you want to restrict PC usage time for your children you can do it by two
ways: 1) check "Lock PC every..." flag and set frequency and duration
of lock; 2) check "Shut down" flag and set duration of PC off-state.
You can specify a hot-key to fast lock your PC. You can also simply lock computer
by double clicking on a tray icon (or you can select "Lock Computer" item
from tray icon's popup menu" Computer will be locked. You have to enter
a correct password to unlock and get access to PC.
There are also screen transparency and screen animation options at the Computer
page.
Internet. Don't you want your children navigate on porn sites? Well... now
you have a possibility to restrict access to web-sites with unallowed content.
Children Control provides 2 ways for this:
1) You can check a "Allow access only to web-sites" option and set
the names of allowed web-sites (NOTE: do not write "http:" or "www." prefixes
for site names!).
2) You can check a "Lock web sites with keywords " option and specify
the bad words. If these words will appear during web navigation the web-sites
with bad content will be locked.
Programs. If your children play brutal games or launch your business programs
you can restrict access to these programs. Just click "+" to add
the executable file to the list and check "Lock access to the programs" flag.
Policies. You can manage system restrictions on this page. (If you are logged
as administrator only). Disable such system function as: Task Manager, registry
tools (RegEdit), control panel, command prompt, password change, Windows update,
wallpaper changing, Add/Remove Programs manager.
Children Control can also hide any drive in Explorer. (Just check drive letters
to hide theme after Windows reboot).
Watch. Do you want to know what does your child do on computer, internet etc?.
You can use hidden screen monitoring for this - check "Capture screen
every...". Do not forget to set an interval between the screen captures.
After a time just select some date on calendar and click "View" to
view screenshots.
That's all. Now click OK button to save options. The settings window will
be hidden but the program will continue work.
