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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$) knows how to fix it. -- t1n0m3n |
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Unable to make changes to parental controls
t1n0m3n;938570 Wrote: Yeah, same here, using the "real admin" account didn't change the error. Honestly, at this point, any errors like this have only one proven fix so far... An OS re-install. It seems like a lot of people get this error and no one (including M$) 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) -- koop1975 |
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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. -- 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 |
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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.-:: -- Maito72 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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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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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. -- t1n0m3n -- imajunky Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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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. Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums |
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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. Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums |