Best way to block all video on childs laptop
I need to restrict my daughters laptop so she can't watch any video at all. We already make her use the laptop only in the living room so we can
see the screen, but we have found she is using sites like YouTube to watch video that she shouldn't be watching - like the TV show
'Skins'.
Any thoughts? And I'm still yet to find an effective 'netnanny' type of software, any recommendations?
unplug it
Thats going to be very difficult to do......
mcafee is pretty good for netnanny duties...
remove flash player, that will stop youtube etc, remove windown media player and delete the old versions that are floating about.
Rather than stopping all video on the computer, dont know enough about various netnanny software to tell you which ones could do this. Could you not just block the common video sites like YouTube etc?? This you can do on most netnanny software
A filtered internet feed would do what you want.
There may be easier ways, but something like this might do it:
Link
It may need a seperate box to run it on.
Stu
A filtered internet feed would do what you want.
There may be easier ways, but something like this might do it:
Link
It may need a seperate box to run it on.
Stu
If it was my child...
If she was caught looking at things I had banned (and I'd check the Internet history) then I'd take the laptop from her for a week.
She'd soon get the message and I wouldn't be reverting to the typical nanny state Britain.
when i was about 14 ( im 27 now) i had some pictures of nekkid women on my computer. i was just looking through them when my little sister walked in
with a snack my mum had made for me.... she yelped out " awwww im telling mum of you.." i pleaded with her not to.. and she agreed.. 5 mins
later my mum came marching up the stairs and bellowed " Whats this your sister says youve got on your computer..!!?? i want you to delete it
now" so i did.. several hours later my dad got home from work, and came upstairs to see me in my bedroom... he asked " do you still have
those pictures on your computer??" he wanted to have a perve at them heheh 
I sympathise greatly can't help I'm afraid because from my experience there isn't a foolproof solution, you'll block/disable
everything unsuitable they use this month but next month they'll have moved on to something/somewhere else and you have to start all over again
and the same the next month and the next month........
I've very reluctantly come to the conclusion you have to either let them use the internet and accept they only want to use for for things you
don't want them using it for and try and watch what they're doing in case they really overstep the boundaries or you don't let them use
it at all - in which case you become 'completely unreasonable evil parent' Our 14 year old thinks we're completely unreasonable anyway
mind you because we wont let her have an internet connection in her bedroom......
[Edited on 2/11/07 by D Beddows]
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Originally posted by andyharding
If it was my child...
If she was caught looking at things I had banned (and I'd check the Internet history) then I'd take the laptop from her for a week. She'd soon get the message and I wouldn't be reverting to the typical nanny state Britain.
If the laptop runs windows vista there are Parental Controls which can be set in the user accounts of control panel. MS also offer something called Windows Live OnceCare Family Safety which might do what you want and I think it works on XP too.
she'll find a way round it whatever you do, back when I was in school they had the computers locked down so we couldn't play games, heck you
couldn't even copy any files - we found a way round all the "protection" within a week, there is always a way round these things, even
if she just goes to a friends house.
Best method IMHO is education.