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Family Safety Settings

Nothing is more important to parents than their children's safety. Windows Vista introduces a rich and powerful set of parental control features to help parents monitor, manage, and administer their children's computer use—and help keep them safe.

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Windows Vista also makes it easy for parents to designate which games their children may play. Parents may choose to allow or restrict specific game titles, limit their children's play to games that are rated at or below a certain age level, or block any games with certain types of content they do not want their children to see or hear.

Parental Controls User Controls page

New Family Safety Settings enable parents to manage their children's computer use.

Finally, Windows Vista provides parents with a detailed activity report that shows exactly what their children have been doing on the computer, including the games they have played, the Web sites they visited, and the applications they have used.

Parental Controls Game Restrictions page

Parents can manage the types of games their children can play.