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    Windows-7: Turn off parental control warning on guest account

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by techman41973, Dec 3, 2010.

  1. techman41973

    techman41973 Notebook Consultant

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    I created a guest account of my Windows 7 laptop for when a friend wants to borrow my laptop to check e-mail or web browsing. I didn't use the default guest account, as I wanted to have more control over settings. By creating a standard-user account (instead of simply activity the Windows 7 guest account), I was able to add a password to log-in and to selecty block applications via the parental controls setting (I have it set to only allow firefox, ms word and skype).

    The problem with this configuration is that everytime someone logs on this guest account I created, Windows 7 greets them with over 18 prompts
    saying "parental controls has blocked this program " and click ok to confirm.
    This occurs because my msconfig file has many applications set to run on startup.

    Does anyone know of a way to block these warning prompts on the guest account I created?

    Thanks
     
  2. jnjroach

    jnjroach Notebook Evangelist

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    Usually you can get granular on the Parental Controls from the Wizard and/website to not prompt or the other option is to allow the TSRs that are prompting at startup....