My 11 yo son

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Hi

My 11 yo son starts secondary school very soon, unfortunately he struggles to write for long periods so the school have agreed in certain lessons he can use a netbook.

Basically he will have MS Office loaded and use this.

So two questions...

1) Does Office run on Netbooks ok, I expect the Netbook will have Windows 7 Starter as the operating system.

2) How can I restrict his access to only MS Office so he can remain focused on his lessons but allow the netbook to used at other times as normal. I am assuming I would need two login's of which he will only know one.

Can anyone send me any links I have looked but its a nightmare.

Thanks
 
I would have suggested Microsoft Steady State as a way to restrict access to things but it appears its incompatible with 64bit OS's and Win 7 (it's fine on XP and Vista 32).

Sorry that's not much help :(
 
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Excellent and thanks to you.

Does anyone know an easy way to restrict access to just this applicationso he will not play in class?
 
Windows 7 parental controls combined with Windows live family safety. Lets you block programs as well as the usual stuff
 
I dont know if 7 starter can do this but create 2 accounts one for you and one for your son.

Go to administrative tools and local security policies and in there you can select which user can do what.
 
Thanks so one way or another it sounds like it is possible, I think I just need to buy and play.

Thanks for you help.

My next problem is its only a matter of time now before he understand this stuff better than me.

Damn
 
I run Office 2007 on my netbook and it's fine.
For my younger sisters we used to set up the parental controls on Vista for when they used the laptop, it was good for blocking certain websites, but there are ways around it unfortunately (I hate that my pre-teen sister is going to be more tech savy than me eventually :D) and sometime it hindered things more than it helped so we ended up unlocking it and just monitoring their activity at home anyway (they only used it at home).
Here's a quick guide to the parental controls.
It's good in that it will block access during certain periods of the day so they can't stay on it chatting on MSN until 2am, but it seems you can only block complete access to the computer at certain times, not individual programs at certain times.
You may need a seperate program like this (note I've not tested it or heard about it before, but it's the kind of thing your looking for) that may block internet access during class time to ensure they're not getting up to mischief.

Edit: This might be worth checking out too, top parental tools
 
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UberTiger said:
I run Office 2007 on my netbook and it's fine.
For my younger sisters we used to set up the parental controls on Vista for when they used the laptop, it was good for blocking certain websites, but there are ways around it unfortunately (I hate that my pre-teen sister is going to be more tech savy than me eventually :D) and sometime it hindered things more than it helped so we ended up unlocking it and just monitoring their activity at home anyway (they only used it at home).
Here's a quick guide to the parental controls.
It's good in that it will block access during certain periods of the day so they can't stay on it chatting on MSN until 2am, but it seems you can only block complete access to the computer at certain times, not individual programs at certain times.
You may need a seperate program like this (note I've not tested it or heard about it before, but it's the kind of thing your looking for) that may block internet access during class time to ensure they're not getting up to mischief.

Edit: This might be worth checking out too, top parental tools
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As far as internet goes I can't see why he would have access to it all at school. Well at least I know my school didn't have wireless or ethernet patch panels in the classroom...if he does you could always just disable it in device manager. :)
 
Temi_D said:
Windows 7 parental controls combined with Windows live family safety. Lets you block programs as well as the usual stuff
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And in addition, you can set logins to only have login access at certain times. So you could set up a school one which works all the time, and an un-restricted (or semi restricted) one which will only work after 3:30pm :)
 
Blackhawk47 said:
As far as internet goes I can't see why he would have access to it all at school. Well at least I know my school didn't have wireless or ethernet patch panels in the classroom...if he does you could always just disable it in device manager. :)
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This is true, I'm thinking of Uni really where we have wifi everywhere, although it wouldn't really surprise if modern primary schools these days have access to wifi in some form or another - then again it would almost certainly be secured anyway. :)
 
UberTiger said:
This is true, I'm thinking of Uni really where we have wifi everywhere, although it wouldn't really surprise if modern primary schools these days have access to wifi in some form or another - then again it would almost certainly be secured anyway. :)
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Well yeah, I suppose he could always whip out a 3g dongle in class. :D :o
 
Have you spoken the the I.T. support staff at the new school?
Many schools run domains and have rules about what outside systems and computers can be connect to their networks and how they can be used. Most computers are managed and locked down in some way to restrict a lot of what pupils can get up to.
 
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