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Above all, parents worry that their kids might encounter upsetting material

on the internet: violence, pornography, hate speech, illegal drug sites, and
so on.

Fortunately, Windows comes with parental controls that give you a fighting
chance at keeping this stuff off your PC: “Microsoft family features.”

They’re easy to use and impressively complete.

Specifically, there are four features to protect your youngsters:

Blocking inappropriate websites from their impressionable eyes.

Setting daily time limits on their computer, Xbox, and phone use.

Monitoring which programs they’re using, and limiting games
and apps they buy from the Microsoft Store.

Sending you activity reports so you know what they’re up to.
Each week, you’ll get emailed a report for each of your kids that
summarizes which websites they’ve visited, what words they’ve

searched for online, how much time they spent on the computer
each day, which programs and games they’ve used this week, and

what apps they’ve downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

Setting Up Family Features

Before you can set up parental controls, some housekeeping is required.
You, the parent, are presumably in charge of the computer and should

therefore have an administrator account (“The Types of Accounts”). And it
must be password-protected; if it’s not, then the kid whose innocence

you’re trying to preserve can just sign in as you and turn parental controls
off.

Your child, on the other hand, must have what Microsoft calls a child

account (Figure 11-6). And it has to be a Microsoft account, meaning that
it’s stored online, not on your computer.