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Unable to make changes to parental controls



 
 
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Old January 13th 09, 07:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
t1n0m3n
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls


Yeah, same here, using the "real admin" account didn't change the error.
Honestly, at this point, any errors like this have only one proven fix
so far... An OS re-install. It seems like a lot of people get this
error and no one (including M$) knows how to fix it.


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t1n0m3n
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Old January 14th 09, 01:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
koop1975
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls


t1n0m3n;938570 Wrote:
Yeah, same here, using the "real admin" account didn't change the error.
Honestly, at this point, any errors like this have only one proven fix
so far... An OS re-install. It seems like a lot of people get this
error and no one (including M$) knows how to fix it.


Thanks for the tip. I guess I'll have to dig up the software and give
that a try....I started using Mac right after I bought this PC but some
websites only work with PC which is why I keep it on hand. Every time I
try to use it, I am reminded why Mac is so much better. (No OS issues,
no lengthy updates and restarts, no memory consuming virus scans, and
the start up time is about 10 times longer on the PC vs. Mac and both
are the same age)


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Old February 10th 09, 12:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
babsbass
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls


davidjchuang;673125 Wrote:
DarleneO;673050 Wrote:
Hi Dave ... I am the admin on the computer with a protected password. I
get
so far as clicking all the necessary buttons to put the parental
control on,
time limits etc and when I hit "ok" or "apply" (I am not at that
computer
right now to know which button it is), I get the standard "Unable to
make
changes to parental controls settings. If this problem persists,
contact your
system administrator." As long as I dont create a password for my
daughters
account and put parental protection on her sign in name, theres no
issues.
Soon as I try to add the parental control it doesnt work. Very
frustrating,
considerinng for months it worked fine and was GREAT!! I have a feeling
a
'upgrade' was made to the computer through Microsoft and its messed it
up
since. I have no added nor deleted anything nor has my daughter to
prevent
the parental controls from working. She has FULL access to the computer
with
no time limits. Thanks, Darlene

"davidjchuang" wrote:


DarleneO;667838 Wrote:

Hi, Darlene. First, please check your own account. Does it say,a)"
Administrator Password protected " Or, b) " Standard User " ?
If answer is a), please tell me how far did you go before you were
stopped. Did you go as far as" Parental Controls * User Controls "
window ? Please reply.


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davidjchuang


With my limited knowledge, I have only one trump card left. I'm gong
to show you how to enable the Real Built-in Administrator, then login
to that account and see if you can set up the parental controls.
1.) open Start menu, type cmd in the search box
2.) look up to the top of the left panel, you'll see cmd , Right
click on it
3.) click RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR , click Continue if a prompt appears
4.) a black & white screen will appear, type in the following :
net_user_administrator_/active:yes
( note : the sign " _ " represents a space between
words )
5.) press ENTER key from your keyboard. The b/w screen will indicate
if the command is successful or not. If yes, close the b/w command
prompt. If not try again and careful with typo/spacing.
6.) Log-off. Your screen will show 3 accounts. The "real" acct,
yours, and your daughter's
7.) login to the "real" account. The system will start setting up the
desktop for the account. After that , try do what you wanted to do all
these time.
Caustion : a) should you decide to keep that account, make sure to
create a password for it.
b) should you decide to get rid of it, repeat the
procedures EXCEPT in step 4.) type net user administrator /active:no
Please let me know if it's ok this time. Good luck.



I have tried the above to no avail... I cannot even open the Parental
Controls page... whenever I click on it, it either does nothing at all
or it flashes a page which disappears just as quickly as it appeared.
Please help!


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babsbass
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Old February 10th 09, 09:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Maito72[_2_]
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls


-::This is the first time that I use this kind of help, and I don't
really know how this came out like that so I'm posting the issue.::-
-::::-
-::Hi everybody::-

-::I have this issue with parental control on Vista Home Premium::-
::-I'm the administrator, owner and only user of my pc.-::
::-A few days ago I installed a game \"Jewell Quest --3\"; when I
double click to start the game I receive an error message that said
something like \"Unable to access this game due to Parenta Control
settings\". (I don't have that pc with me rigth now)-::
::-The thing is that until that moment I didn't even know about
parental control, I never set it up, never used it before, never needed
and I donīt have another account on my pc, I don't even have a password
to access the OS.-::
::-I read all the posts made here since last year and I tried a few
things but nothing works, I really donīt have any idea about how to get
rid of this.-::
::-I will appreciate any information to solve this issue.-::



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Old March 8th 09, 09:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
[email protected]
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls

On Feb 9, 8:55*pm, babsbass wrote:
davidjchuang;673125 Wrote:



DarleneO;673050 Wrote:
Hi Dave ... I am the admin on the computer with a protected password. I
get
so far as clicking all the necessary buttons to put the parental
control on,
time limits etc and when I hit "ok" or "apply" (I am not at that
computer
right now to know which button it is), I get the standard "Unable to
make
changes to parental controls settings. If this problem persists,
contact your
system administrator." As long as I dont create a password for my
daughters
account and put parental protection on her sign in name, theres no
issues.
Soon as I try to add the parental control it doesnt work. Very
frustrating,
considerinng for months it worked fine and was GREAT!! I have a feeling
a
'upgrade' was made to the computer through Microsoft and its messed it
up
since. I have no added nor deleted anything nor has my daughter to
prevent
the parental controls from working. She has FULL access to the computer
with
no time limits. Thanks, Darlene


"davidjchuang" wrote:


DarleneO;667838 Wrote:


Hi, Darlene. First, please check your own account. Does it say,a)"
Administrator Password protected " Or, b) " Standard User " ?
If answer is a), please tell me how far did you go before you were
stopped. Did you go as far as" Parental Controls * User Controls "
window ? Please reply.


--
davidjchuang


With my limited knowledge, I have only one trump card left. I'm gong
to show you how to enable the Real Built-in Administrator, then login
to that account and see if you can set up the parental controls.
1.) open Start menu, type * cmd * in the search box
2.) look up to the top of the left panel, you'll see *cmd *, Right
click on it
3.) click RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR , click Continue if a prompt appears
4.) a black & white screen will appear, type in the following :
net_user_administrator_/active:yes *
( note : the sign " _ " represents a space between
words )
5.) press *ENTER key from your keyboard. The b/w screen will indicate
if the command is successful or not. If yes, close the b/w command
prompt. If not try again and careful with typo/spacing.
6.) Log-off. Your screen will show 3 accounts. The "real" acct,
yours, and your daughter's
7.) login to the "real" account. The system will start setting up the
desktop for the account. After that , try do what you wanted to do all
these time.
Caustion : a) should you decide to keep that account, make sure to
create a password for it.
b) should you decide to get rid of it, repeat the
procedures EXCEPT in step 4.) type net user administrator /active:no
Please let me know if it's ok this time. Good luck.


I have tried the above to no avail... I cannot even open the Parental
Controls page... whenever I click on it, it either does nothing at all
or it flashes a page which disappears just as quickly as it appeared.
Please help!

--
babsbass


I had the same problem. I've had strange things happen with firewalls
and video drivers in the past, so I thought I would start down that
road as a Windows update would be to obvious and the issue would have
been resolved by now considering their have been postings for the past
year on this issue. In my case it turned out to be my video driver (I
think). I have an ATI video card and I had downloaded and installed
an updated driver from ATI's website a few months back. I also messed
around with some of the advanced settings. I did notice that the
Parental Control service was set to Manual so I changed it to
Automatic and started the service but I still couldn't change the
settings for users it would load about 1/2 the screen for about 1/2 a
second then give me the error. It would only do that the 1st time I
would try accessing it after rebooting the computer. Then it would
just give the error message every time I tried accessing it. I
verified it's dependent services were running as well. I started
poking around in the Windows Firewall to see if there might be some
clue there. I turned it off and then changed my mind and turned it
back on. Then I went ahead and uninstalled the video driver rebooted
the computer and set the display driver to use the Standard VGA driver
and rebooted the computer again. Then I reinstalled the driver I had
downloaded and now I can get in to parental controls. If that didn't
work I was going to try my original video driver. My guess is that
there was some setting I had changed for the video adapter and
uninstalling and reinstalling the driver set all of it's settings back
to their defaults.
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Old March 8th 09, 09:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
imajunky
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls


I had the same problem. I've had strange things happen with firewalls
and video drivers in the past, so I thought I would start down that road
as a Windows update would be to obvious and the issue would have been
resolved by now considering their have been postings for the past year
on this issue. In my case it turned out to be my video driver (I
think). I have an ATI video card and I had downloaded and installed an
updated driver from ATI's website a few months back. I also messed
around with some of the advanced settings. I did notice that the
Parental Control service was set to Manual so I changed it to Automatic
and started the service but I still couldn't change the settings for
users it would load about 1/2 the screen for about 1/2 a second then
give me the error. It would only do that the 1st time I would try
accessing it after rebooting the computer. Then it would just give the
error message every time I tried accessing it. I verified it's
dependent services were running as well. I started poking around in the
Windows Firewall to see if there might be some clue there. I turned it
off and then changed my mind and turned it back on. Then I went ahead
and uninstalled the video driver rebooted the computer and set the
display driver to use the Standard VGA driver and rebooted the computer
again. Then I reinstalled the driver I had downloaded and now I can get
in to parental controls. If that didn't work I was going to try my
original video driver. My guess is that there was some setting I had
changed for the video adapter and uninstalling and reinstalling the
driver set all of it's settings back to their defaults.t1n0m3n;1134646 Wrote:
Yeah, same here, using the "real admin" account didn't change the error.
Honestly, at this point, any errors like this have only one proven fix
so far... An OS re-install. It seems like a lot of people get this
error and no one (including M$) knows how to fix it.


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t1n0m3n



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Old March 17th 10, 03:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Gillett MP
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls

Hi,
Unable to make changes to parental controls settings. If this problem persists, see your system administrator.

I am the administrator, I get this message when I click on a user to set parental control settings.

Can you help?

Thank you very much.


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Old March 17th 10, 03:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Gillett MP
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Default Unable to make changes to parental controls

Hi,
Unable to make changes to parental controls settings. If this problem persists, see your system administrator.

I am the administrator, I get this message when I click on a user to set parental control settings.

Can you help?

Thank you very much.


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