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be long-distance.) You may also want to turn on “Email me when

my child gets stuff,” for extra Big Brotherishness.

Block inappropriate apps, games & media lets you prevent your
kid from playing anything Microsoft deems to be a mature game or

movie, without your approval.

Use the pop-up menu (“Allow apps and games rated for”) to limit
apps by age—for example, if you choose “10-year-olds,” then your

little darling can download and play anything intended for 10 and
under. (To see what game-industry ratings these ages correspond
to, choose “View allowed ratings.”)

If your child tries to open a program that’s off-limits, you’ll be
notified and given a chance to OK it or block it. (Your choices will
be reflected in the “Always allowed” and “Always blocked” lists

here.)

Of course, all this assumes that (a) you trust the age ratings the
game and movie companies have given their own apps, and (b)

your kid won’t try to play any of the thousands of games that do
not come from the Microsoft Store.

Fortunately, you have two more tools at your disposal: You can

block an app or a game after your kid has played it. On the Recent
Activity screen for your child, you see everything he’s been doing
on Windows 10 PCs. The beauty is that you, even sitting across

town at your office, can monitor and stop stuff that upsets you.
Click Block to block an app or a website, on the spot.

And then hope that the damage hasn’t been done.

Web browsing

Web filtering prevents your youngsters from opening inappropriate websites
—dirty pictures, hate speech, and so on. You can either trust Microsoft’s
ever-evolving “blacklist” of known naughty sites, or you can add individual

web addresses to the blocked list.