The protection of minors in the Internet Explorer Family Safety)activate (
A youth protection function for the Internet Explorer, there is not, strictly speaking. Rather, this is using the "Family Safety"feature of Windows to block access to certain content. To enable this function, the minor user must have a standard user account. You must have an administrator account.
- Press in Internet Explorer, the key combination "Alt+X".
- Select "Internet options" and then go to the tab "content". Click on the Button "Family Safety".
- Select the user account for which you want to enable the protection of the youth. Now you can set the feature "Family Safety" to "A", by clicking on the corresponding point.
Youth protection in the Internet Explorer
The protection of minors for Internet Explorer configure
If you have enabled the protection of the youth or the "Family Safety"function, you will get various ways to configure the protection of minors on your Computer.
- Directly under the item to activate the "Family Safety"feature you can turn on activity reporting on or off.
- "Web filtering": Here you can determine which websites the user is permitted to access. You can limit access to pages based on various criteria or their own filter lists. In addition, you can block the file download.
- "Time limits": Here you can determine when and how long the user on to the Computer can log on to.
- "Windows Store and game restrictions": Here you can specify whether the user is granted access to all installed games and if he gets all the Windows Store Apps (Windows 8) is displayed or whether the access to the old release should be restricted.
- "App restrictions": Here you can control which programs and Apps installed in the user access receives and which are not.
Access protection in Internet Explorer
For this practice tip, Internet Explorer 10 was used along with Windows 8.
