Restricted log-on hours mean you can only access the Internet at certain times.
Setting up log-on hours to restrict user access to the Internet is a great way to stop children and teens from sneaking into that chat room in the middle of the night or waking up to play their favorite online game. There are different ways to accomplish an Internet restriction policy. The easiest and most flexible is to create user names and passwords on each computer in the house. Both Windows 7 and Windows Vista have Parental Control settings that allow an administrator to set log-on restrictions.
Instructions
1. Log on to Windows with an administrator account. If a generic administrator account was not created when Windows was installed, the administrator account is the first account created during the install process.
2. Click "Start," "Control Panel," "User Accounts and Family Safety" and "Change Your Windows Password" if a password does not exist for the administrator account. Click "Create a Password for Your Account" and create a password that will be difficult for others to guess. Type the password in twice and create a password hint, click the "Create Password" button and close the "User Accounts" window.
3. Click "Start," "Control Panel," "User Accounts and Family Safety" and "Add or Remove User Accounts." This will open the "Manage Accounts" Control Panel program.
4. Click "Create a New Account." Type in the name of the new account in the first box. This is the name of the account that will be restricted, so make sure "Standard User" is selected. Click the "Create Account" button.
5. Click "Set up Parental Controls." Click the user name of the account just created.
6. Click the button next to "On, Enforce Current Settings" under the "Parental Controls" heading.
7. Click on "Time Limits." A chart will appear with all the times and days in a week. White squares indicate times the user is allowed to be logged in and blue squares indicate times the user is blocked from logging in. The default is allowed time (white squares), so change each square to blue under the day and time the computer should not allow the user to be active.
8. Click "Ok" to accept the changes.
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