If you have kids, then you are probably always worried about them spending long time on computer and the type of games they play on computer. With User Accounts or the Parental Controls settings in Windows 7 you can supervise and control your PC without peeking over your kids activities while on PC. You can set almost everything that you require for your kid’s safety on windows 7, the amount of time that you want to allow your kids on PC, exactly what hours during the day, and what sort of programs or games are permissible to them. Not only that, you can even customize settings to maximum security allowing you to even block access to unrated movies or TV shows, both online or offline.

In Windows 7 there are many settings that you can use to ensure safety for users, especially children. First let us take a glance at the User Accounts settings, this feature is available in all the windows after XP, it allows you to make settings on your computer as an administrator mode and these settings can only be changed by the administrator. You can create many other profiles for the other users in your family by their names, and grant them different levels of security. You can block a program which you think is inappropriate for USER 1 and allow the same program to run for USER 2. In this way it becomes easier for the administrator to supervise and control multiple users, in your case the kids.

Creating a new account or profile is very easy and requires only few steps, first go to the Control Panel then select ‘Manage another Account’. Inside that you will find ’Create New Account’, here you will enter the name of the profile or your kid’s name after which you will select the ‘standard user’ and then finally click the ‘Create Account’. Now you will be taken back to the ‘User Account’ page where you can see the user account that you have created just now. This is the place where you can customize all the settings like changing the Account Name, creating password, putting profile picture, and setting up the ‘Parental Controls’ This Parental Control feature of Windows 7 allows you to set time limit in using the computer, which may differ in each Account, also allows you to block certain unwanted programs.

You can now carefully supervise and monitor your computer hence giving your children exactly what they need by safeguarding them from dangers. Your children have the every right to grow up morally and healthy, and the best way to  ensure this is to guide them on education, check their exposure to wrong things, and most importantly manage and utilize their time properly while they are young.