Q: I enabled Parental Controls in all of the standard user accounts in my Windows Vista computer. Whenever I logon to Windows, I’m always getting a balloon popup in the Notification area which tells me to look at the Parental Control activity report. How do I disable this notification?
A: You can disable the Windows Parental Controls notification or change the reminder frequency to Weekly, using these steps:
- Click Start, Control Panel, click User Accounts
- Click Family Safety, click Set up parental controls for any user
- In the Tasks pane on the left, click Family Safety Options
- Select Never to turn off Parental Controls notification (or)
- Select Weekly to be reminded to read the activity reports once in a week.
See also:
How to clear the Parental Controls Activity Reports in Windows Vista
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Sure it not be easyer to just lower the age rating of the game so its not thinking it has ADULT or Gory Content?
This way you can keep the Parental setting and not have to worrie about little timmy and x-rated webbies
I think, that build-in parent control in Win is far from perfection, so I’d recommend you to buy a separate programm with many features, for example, I use Time Boss.
It is not visible (if you don’t wanna see it), it allows not only to block, but to reduce time of use for certain sites.
It works with explorer only, but it’s cool.
Try it! I bought mine here: http://www.nicekit.com/
Ya im not the admin on my computer, and i play HoN ( Heroes of Newerth ) and there is a parent lock on it. I have told my father and we have tried to ” Run it as Admin ” but it still wont work… I dont know if its just my computer, or all of windows. Im sad.
Folks, one clean way of simply disabling that function is that most people didn’t bother thinking of looking at it from a “service” point of view, as in the “Administrative Tools”-”Services” point of view:-) If you’re not the administrator of the computer in question though, tough luck.
Simply go to “Administrative Tools”-”Services” then find “Windows Live Parental Control”. Right-click on it and go to “Properties” and at the section “Startup Type” –choose “Disabled”. Next go to the tab above named “Recovery” and for all three levels, choose “Take no Action” and voila!
You may also find in the list of services one that’s called simply “Parental Control”. Simply do the same thing all over. Once you’ll restart your computer, when your startup programs will be loading after your initial Windows Vista login, you will see an error message saying you may not be able to access Internet. BUT YOU ACTUALLY CAN :-) because the service has not only been disabled, but it also has been set as “TAKE NO ACTION”, so Windows can’t interfere.
How did I find this out! Well, although I am a control Freak as to what services I want active/inactive in my computer (it DOES have drawbacks sometimes being a control freak, but it also has Benefits! Hehe!) I just thought of it by a fluke random thought actually by double-checking which services were active and found out what I wrote just here. And if you can live with the fact that there will be an error message at the startup (which I consider more like a scare tactic than anything else), you can kiss Parental control goodbye and say “I am in control of my computer”, (and with Austin Power’s voice) groovy baby, oh yeeeaaaaah! :-)