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Windows 8: Set up Family Safety (Microsoft Account)Article ID: 2782156 - View products that this article applies to. More informationSymptomsI created a Microsoft account as user account for my child. How do I set up Family Safety for this account? ResolutionFamily Safety: Set up Family Safety for a Microsoft account in Windows 8 Of course, you can use Family Safety to protect a user account in Windows 8 which was created using a Microsoft account. Doing this enables you to protect your children from content on the local PC or from web content which might be harmful to children, to control access times to the PC, and determine which games, programs, and apps your children are allowed to use. Note: This article describes using Windows 8 with a mouse and a keyboard. Please make sure that Family Safety is turned on. You can turn on Family Safety when you are setting up the accounts for your children. 1. Display the Charms bar by pointing with the mouse to the upper right or lower left corner of the start screen. Collapse this image  2. Click Search. Collapse this image  3. Click Settings. Collapse this image  4. Enter Family Safety. Collapse this image  5. In the left pane, click Set up Family Safety for any user. Collapse this image  6. In the next window, click the account for which you want to control access rights and restrictions. Collapse this image  7. Leave the settings above unchanged and click Web filtering, if you want to determine which web contents this person can display. Collapse this image  8. Make sure that the option [...] can only use the websites I allow is enabled in the upper pane. Click Set web filtering level. Collapse this image  9. In the next window, accept the default setting Online communication or choose the option Designed for children. Collapse this image  10. In the left pane, click Allow or Block Websites to create a list of allowed or blocked web pages, or click User Settings to edit more settings. Collapse this image  11. Click Time limits to choose the days and times your children can access the PC. Collapse this image  12. Based on the options on the Time Allowance tab, you can determine how many hours and minutes your children can use the PC on weekdays and weekends. Collapse this image  13. Based on the options on the Curfew tab, you can determine the times for each day when this person is not allowed to use the PC at all. Collapse this image  14. Then click User Settings to edit additional options. Collapse this image  15. Click Windows Store and game restrictions to restrict the use of games. Collapse this image  16. Click Set game and Windows Store ratings to determine that this person can only use the games suitable for his/her age which are installed on the PC. Collapse this image  17. In the next window, you chose a game rating level based on the age of your child. Collapse this image  18. If you want to block or allow specific locally installed games click Allow or Block Games on the left bar. Otherwise click User Settings. Collapse this image  19. Click App restrictions, if you want to allow or block access to specific apps locally installed on this PC for this person. Collapse this image  20. Now you can determine which apps this person can use by selecting the appropriate checkbox. Collapse this image  21. Then close the window. The changes are immediately in effect. Collapse this image  22. The next time this user signs in, a notification is displayed telling her/him that this account is monitored by Family Safety. Collapse this image  Note This is a "FAST PUBLISH" article created directly from within the Microsoft support organization. The information contained herein is provided as-is in response to emerging issues. As a result of the speed in making it available, the materials may include typographical errors and may be revised at any time without notice. See Terms of Use
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