Parental controls not working for administrator

[Guest]

I am having problems with setting parental controls. The first night I set
them up for one person without any difficulties. However on the second night
I was not able to set them up for anyone else. When I go into the user to set
controls I get a brief glimpse of the screen and then I am getting the
message-- 'Unable to make changes to parental control settings. If problem
persists, see your system administrator'. I am the only administrator and, I
cannot resolve this issue. I would appreciate a little help on this if it is
out there.
Thanks

 

[LaRoux]

Have you asked your kids to give you access?

 

[Joey DoWop Dee]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:33:01 -0400, LaRoux wrote:

LOL!

 

[Guest]

I am having the exact same problem. I have tried changing the setting from
the adminstrator log in, from the child log in and neither work. I have
deleted the child's account, kept the files and created a new account and
tried setting up the parental controls from that, I have tried setting up a
brand new child account from scratch and could not set up the parental
controls for that. I managed to set up one parental control for one account a
few days ago and have not been able to set up any others. My evenings are too
busy to spend two hours a night figuring this out so HELP HELP!!

 

[Percival]

Check the user account that you are currently using, make sure that its administrator account.
Check services.msc if the Parental Control is running(started), if not, well leave stopped hehei.. yes you need to run it. Check the WPCSvc.dll if its inside the c:\windows\system32.
If non of these works - Create a new administrator account....

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[Guest]

Hi Percival,

The user account is an administartor. I have set up new administrator and
still no luck. The WPCSvc.dll is inside c:\windows\system32.


Where is services.msc?

Any other thoughts?

thanks

 

[good_help]

Hi, you probably installed an app that messed up your PATH envrionment variable. Please use the regedit in your administrator cmd window to see the PATH under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Environment

It should be REG_EXPAND_SZ (and not REG_SZ). The application that changed it is likely one of the last entries in the PATH.

If you fix it to be REG_EXPAND_SZ, Parental control should start working again.

Hope this helps.

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[good_help]

Hi, you probably installed an app that messed up your PATH envrionment variable. Please use the regedit in your administrator cmd window to see the PATH under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Environment

It should be REG_EXPAND_SZ (and not REG_SZ). The application that changed it is likely one of the last entries in the PATH.

If you fix it to be REG_EXPAND_SZ, Parental control should start working again.

Hope this helps.

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[Guest]

Hi,

Thank you for the information. I cannot seem to get to regedit in
administrator cmd window to check out path. Could you give me more
information on how to get to this stage. I understand what has to be done to
change but I cannot seem to get started.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I have found the regedit and have located
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment. There seems to be a combination of REG_SZ and
REG_EXPAND_SZ lines in it. I do not know what to do here. I am not sure of
what to do. Do I delete lines or edit them or insert them. Please advise.

 

[kev2100]

The easies solution is to avoid the Vista parental controls and invest
in a good third party control. The Vista controls are pretty basic and
limited in what they can do.

After a lot of research I invested in a program called PC Chaperone
(http://www.pc-chaperone.com). It's by far the most extensive set of
tools I've seen and is very easy to use.