Parental Control

Kethridge · 17 Jun 2010 at 17:27

Need a good parental control program. Preferably free. (Must be easy to use, parent's pc)

Any ideas?

matthab · 17 Jun 2010 at 17:31

If you have windows 7 thats pretty decent, what are you looking to control?

If your also good you can use local security policies etc in control panel administrative tools.

Philtor · 17 Jun 2010 at 19:05

I have used this in the past on XP and it was excellent..

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

Temi_D · 18 Jun 2010 at 00:59

Windows live family safety. Free download. Awesome monitoring and blocking, keeps logs of programs run, time spent, sites, etc. Best one imo

Kethridge · 18 Jun 2010 at 09:10

The program is for my parents who have absolutly no idea about computers, so it must be easy to use.

I installed Windows 7, and after trying to install a few older games I formatted and installed WinXP. The compatibility problems with many older programs on Win 7 is terrible, and until they've sorted it out I will be sticking with WinXP.

I had a look at K9, I will try downloading that. I will also try the above.

edscdk · 18 Jun 2010 at 09:20

http://www.k9webprotection.com this installs on your computer

or

www.opendns.org you point your routers DNS at their servers

both are easy to use...

Kethridge · 18 Jun 2010 at 09:58

K9 was terrible!

No matter what level of security I set it to my internet speed quartered!

lcg · 18 Jun 2010 at 10:14

OpenDNS.

Kethridge · 18 Jun 2010 at 10:48

Temi_D said:
Windows live family safety. Free download. Awesome monitoring and blocking, keeps logs of programs run, time spent, sites, etc. Best one imo

This.

Excellent suggestion mate. Cheers for the help!

MikeB · 18 Jun 2010 at 11:59

Kethridge said:
The program is for my parents who have absolutly no idea about computers, so it must be easy to use.

I installed Windows 7, and after trying to install a few older games I formatted and installed WinXP. The compatibility problems with many older programs on Win 7 is terrible, and until they've sorted it out I will be sticking with WinXP.

I had a look at K9, I will try downloading that. I will also try the above.

They must be very old games, I run loads of games and never had aproblem on Win 7 64 bit

haroon · 18 Jun 2010 at 20:10

philtorrens said:
I have used this in the past on XP and it was excellent..

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

+1,ive used a few in the past,but k9 is the best one ive used so far,but it can have problems time to time with connecting to server,no parential control is perfect.