Microsoft Windows Vista includes the utility Parental Controls which can help us in protecting children online and with PC’s in general. The following are the steps which will guide us how to use Activity Reports to determine what you want to block or not block.
To access this report again go to Control Panel and click on “Set up Parental Controls for any user”.
Now click on the user account you want to administer.
Now choose View Activity reports under their profile, it may take a few moments for the report to generate.
This report will cover several items, some of which may surprise you or not. Either way this is a great tool for determining which functionality to add or disable.
The first thing to look at in the report is located in the upper left hand corner.
This will include detailed information about their Web Browsing, Email, Instant Messaging, etc. As you can see it is laid out in a simple expandable tree format.
Under each sub-category the list can be quite comprehensive. For instance looking at Websites visited on this list produced well over 1,000 results and this was just after a few hours of browsing. But you can see there are several topics you can view to gain a more clear picture of what they are using the PC for.
On the page you can view the complete expanded tree of everything and get a report on. As you can imagine this report is very handy when they try to deny they were at a certain site or running a certain application but you have the evidence!
We have covered ways to monitor and protect children with the PC and while online using Windows Vista.
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