Setting up Windows 10 for your kids

Are you planning to buy a Windows laptop for your kid as a present for winters and thus parents need to know about how to set the borders over cordon off certain corners of the internet? Even the parents could have a look over their kid’s online activity.

Creation of an account for kids:

Microsoft enables parents to create separate accounts for children, which could be managed later. After having a sign in to the account follow the steps:

1. Settings > Accounts > Family & other users

2. Select Add a family member

3. Select Add a child and then select The person I want to add doesn’t have an email address for creating an account.


Family safety first

1. Follow the path: Settings > Accounts > Family & other users

2. Here you will get link where you can direct the path to open “Microsoft’s family settings website”

3. Just sign in into own account, if you signed into child’s account, you won’t be able to access family settings.

After signing in:

1. Click Family, viewing your family members.

2. Under child’s account, you will have a look: Activity, Screen time, Content restrictions, spending.

ACTIVITY:

For activity, setup being simple

Toggle on Activity reporting, where you can have a look over the activity logs of your child.

Screen Time:

Here you can set the time limit for laptops or PC registered over your child’s account

If the child tries to use the account beyond the limits set up by you then he would be asked to log another account and would be unable to do so.

Content Restrictions:

Here you can set up age restrictions over the applications, games & media and even for web browsing.

Here you can blacklist the sites where you don’t want your child to have an access.

Even a white list could be created where you could add the sites specially.

Spending:

Here you can add money as sort of digital allowance for Microsoft store.

If still you have any query or issues contact with Windows 10 support team.

Jack Martin  is a passionate writer who loves to write about the most latest technological changes, Windows and Microsoft updates and errors associated with them. He has also written hundreds of blogs on web browsers, antiviruses, mobile phones, gadgets and other related stuff.