Parental controls causes Outlook Express to be constipated.

[Guest]

So far my Vista 5385 experience has been great - the only hitch has been the
Partntal Control. I have four profiles set up on my system. I wanted to try
the Parental Controls after she accidentally mistyped her favorite website
name and came up with a hard core porn page instead.

At first the controls seemed to work fine. The problem was first noticed
when she tried to use her Outlook Express. It kept hanging whenever it tried
to connect & disconnect from the mail server. Any troubleshooting I did was
to no avail until I checked into the Parental Controls. Once they were
turned off everything worked fine.

I had them set for her to access any program on my computer, so I canot see
that being an issue. The only restrictions put in place were to filter out
porn, hate & other nasty stuff you don't want an eleven year old getting into.

Suggestions on how to fix this or can anybody point out what I did wrong?

 

[jonah]

So far my Vista 5385 experience has been great - the only hitch has been the
Partntal Control. I have four profiles set up on my system. I wanted to try
the Parental Controls after she accidentally mistyped her favorite website
name and came up with a hard core porn page instead.

At first the controls seemed to work fine. The problem was first noticed
when she tried to use her Outlook Express. It kept hanging whenever it tried
to connect & disconnect from the mail server. Any troubleshooting I did was
to no avail until I checked into the Parental Controls. Once they were
turned off everything worked fine.

I had them set for her to access any program on my computer, so I canot see
that being an issue. The only restrictions put in place were to filter out
porn, hate & other nasty stuff you don't want an eleven year old getting into.

Suggestions on how to fix this or can anybody point out what I did wrong?

Don't think it should affect Outlook Express, do you mean the new
Windows Mail program?

Also where did you get 5385 from?

Probably a bug, most testers here would not be using parental controls
at this stage of development, I will try it later on my test box and
see what happens.



Jonah

 

[Guest]

Yes - I did mean Windows Mail. Ten years of calling it Outlook die hard.

My 5385 build was shipped straight from the biys & girls in Redmond - so it
is the real McCoy.

 

[jonah]

Yes - I did mean Windows Mail. Ten years of calling it Outlook die hard.

My 5385 build was shipped straight from the biys & girls in Redmond - so it
is the real McCoy.

snip

OK Hagar,

Bear with me I am re-installing Vista for the umpteenth time tonight,
I will try Win Mail with Parental Controls tomorrow and post back,
unless somebody else gets here first with an answer.

BTW I am sure its the real thing, the public Beta is 5384 and the
latest build available to developers / professionals only is 5456,
5385? new one on me.

I will install 5384 so we are on nearly the same version.



Jonah

 

[Guest]

Hey Jonah!

Bug report filed. FYI, tried the same thing when I set up my son's user
profile and Windows Mail.

Same results.

As long as Parental Controls were on - Windows Mail would hang.

As soon as it was removed - it worked fine.

Keep me posted on how you fare out.

 

[jonah]

So far my Vista 5385 experience has been great - the only hitch has been the
Partntal Control. I have four profiles set up on my system. I wanted to try
the Parental Controls after she accidentally mistyped her favorite website
name and came up with a hard core porn page instead.

At first the controls seemed to work fine. The problem was first noticed
when she tried to use her Outlook Express. It kept hanging whenever it tried
to connect & disconnect from the mail server. Any troubleshooting I did was
to no avail until I checked into the Parental Controls. Once they were
turned off everything worked fine.

I had them set for her to access any program on my computer, so I canot see
that being an issue. The only restrictions put in place were to filter out
porn, hate & other nasty stuff you don't want an eleven year old getting into.

Suggestions on how to fix this or can anybody point out what I did wrong?

Don't think you did anything wrong, just tried it same thing happened
and lots of other oddball stuff in user account with parental
controls. Still investigating to see if I can figure out why Winmail
is hanging, I will put a bug report in tomorrow if I can't find any
fixes. Meanwhile because Winmail has several known bugs anyway I
suggest you use an XP box or better yet get Thunderbird installed its
a much better and safer e mail client than Lookout Express (Can't see
much different in Winmail from OE TBO even the same HTML by default is
there).

Personally I would not use it for any purpose.

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Thunderbird works in Vista OK as does Firefox.

There are many others also, Courier is my favourite along with
Mailwasher to pre delete spam & junk. I don't know if these two work
in Vista I have not tried them yet.

http://www.firetrust.com/
http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/courier/

Thanks for bringing this up very few would bother with Parental
Controls on a Beta Test.

Jonah

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the update. Didn't think I did anything wrong - surprised that I
actuakky nailed a bug. Did file a bug reporton this - be interested to see
when a patch is issued.

 

[Guest]

Possibly a related issue. I've switched on parental controls for my children
and it blocks Windows Live Messenger - "service is unavailable". Turning off
parental controls re-enables it. I connect to the internet through a DSL
router/switch connected to the PC via TCP/IP (wired). My guess is that
parental controls is blocking some protocols but I'm not able to find
anywhere to tune this. Proxy server is not set up in IE7, but Messenger
works anyway with parental controls switched off.