Setting up new PC for teenage daughters use

bazzabear · 23 Jul 2023 at 20:23

A new laptop will be arriving shortly which will be my daughters. For use for gaming, school work, and she'll use a Wacom drawing tablet with it too.

This'll be her first PC, and she's my only child, so I have no idea about access restrictions and the like. Can people offer any advice?

The one thing I have heard is to restrict the main user account, and set-up one for her without admin access. Does that sound right?

Anything else I should do? I guess I can use settings in Chrome to somewhat control web access too?

All advice gratefully received!

bazzabear · 23 Jul 2023 at 21:15

It does have a 1Tb SSD, thanks!

bazzabear · 24 Jul 2023 at 13:56

All great advice there. I thought much the same about a non-admin account maybe being more effort than advantage. And I do trust my daughter. But at the same time, she's 12, so precautions make sense anyway!

So I think we'll start with such an account, and adjust if we decide it's too much bother.

The image backup sounds very sensible - and I have to admit I don't think I recall how to do that! Any guidance available?

bazzabear · 24 Jul 2023 at 15:38

She already possesses a microsoft account as part of our family group - so I assume I can just set up the new laptop to use this existing account.

bazzabear · 24 Jul 2023 at 22:21

Yeah, we're in a similar situation - except I realised that I was never going to be that lucky again, so we stopped after the first one.