Parental control

Click on the button Create new user. A dialogue box opens in which you can enter the username and password for this user.

Now the newly created username appears under "Users", and at the same time a Windows user account is created for this user. This means that the parental control is automatically active for the person with the respective settings who logs in with their username when Windows is started. Now double-click with the mouse on the settings area to be set for this user, e.g. the prevention of forbidden content or the exclusive provision of permitted content. In addition, you can specify whether the Internet usage time or computer usage time should be monitored for this user.

This area opens a dialogue window in which you can block specific content on the Internet for the user currently displayed. To do this, select the desired categories that are to be blocked by placing a tick. Now click on Ok and the Internet pages that meet the criteria are thus blocked.

If you click on New, a dialogue window opens in which you can define your own criteria (also called blacklists). First define the name and, if necessary, an information text for the individually created filter.

If you now click on Ok, another window opens in which you can group together contents that are to be suppressed by this filter.

To do this, enter a term to be blocked under Filter and the area of a website to be searched for under Search location, where you want to search for it.

Here you have the following choices:

However, you can explicitly unblock special pages that accidentally fall into the filter area by using the exceptions function. To do this, simply click on Exceptions and enter the respective page there.

This area opens a dialogue window in which you can allow special content on the Internet for the currently displayed user. To do this, select the desired categories that are to be allowed by setting a ticking the checkbox. Now click on Ok and the Internet pages that meet the desired criteria are permitted.

If you click on New, a dialogue window opens in which you can define your own content to be allowed (also called whitelists). First define the name and, if necessary, an information text for the individually created filter.

Now click on Ok. A dialogue opens in which you can fill the whitelist with websites that are suitable.

To do this, enter under "Filter" which domain name components should be allowed. If, for example, you want to release a website with child-friendly content, you can enter e.g. www.fragfinn.de here and thus allow access to this website. Now enter what can be found on this website under Description and enter the exact web address of the page under Link. The description and the link become important if your child, for example, actually calls up a page that you have not allowed. Instead of an error message, an HTML page will then appear in the browser that shows lists all the websites entered here in the whitelist, including their descriptions. In this way, your child can directly access the pages that are allowed for him or her. When all entries have been made, click on Add and the whitelist will be supplemented by these entries.

Here you can define how long and at what times a selected user has Internet access. To do this, set the checkbox under Monitor Internet Usage Time. Now you can determine how long the user may access the Internet in total per month, how long per week and how many hours on certain days of the week. For example, weekends can be handled differently for school-age children than the weekdays. You can simply enter the corresponding time periods for this under days/hh:mmv where, for example, the entry 04/20:05 would result in an Internet usage time of 4 days, 20 hours and 5 minutes.

If the respective user attempts to access the Internet beyond the permitted time quota, a message appears informing him/her that he/she has exceeded his/her time quota.

Here you can define how long and at what times a selected user is allowed to use the computer. To do this, tick the checkbox for Monitor computer usage time. Now you can determine how long the user may use the computer in total per month, how long per week and how many hours on certain days of the week. Weekends can be handled differently from weekdays. You can simply enter the corresponding time periods for this under Days/hh:mm, whereby e.g. the entry 04/20:05 would result in a computer usage time of 4 days, 20 hours and 5 minutes. Using the button Display warning message before time expires you can inform a user shortly before the computer is automatically shut down, so that he or she can still save his or her data. If the computer is shut down without a warning, this can lead to data loss.

In this area, you can modify the whitelists (i.e. permitted content) and blacklists (i.e. prohibited content) that you have created yourself.

The following list types differ fundamentally from each other:

The following buttons allow you to edit the exclusion lists:

This area allows you to change basic settings for the information in the protocol area. You can define whether violations of permitted and/or prohibited contents are to be logged or not. If the contents are logged, you can view the logs of the different users in the log area.

Since log files become very large with regular use, you can have the parental control display a warning under "Message" when the file reaches a certain size and then delete it if necessary.