Window 7 Parental Control Specification Staff Computer Usage

There is a parental control feature in Windows 7, which allows you to regulate the behavior of your computer. However, the author believes that this name is called parental control and may not be appropriate. Because not only parents can use this feature to limit their children's transition to use the computer; but system administrators can also use this feature to limit employees to play games during non-working hours. Microsoft took this name and made the author sound awkward. Did the author become the parent of the employee? Although this name is not very suitable, this function is still very practical.

As shown above, this is a screenshot of the parental control panel. Maybe Microsoft has launched an urgent need, this management panel is not translated. As can be seen from this screenshot, the following control can be achieved through this parental control function. The first can limit the time employees use the computer; the second can limit the games that employees play; the third can limit the applications that employees use. These three functions are very useful.

First: Limit the time employees use their computers.

There is a company that provides accommodation for employees and has a big management problem. Because employees live in relatively close quarters of the company, employees are more "hardworking." Every time after work, you have to come to the company to work overtime. And if you work overtime, it is often added to 12 o'clock in the evening, or even longer. Sometimes, weekends are no exception. What are they doing so diligently? They used to surf the Internet, chat, play games, etc. in the office. Originally there was free air conditioning in the office; and it was OK to work overtime on the weekends. Although there was no overtime pay, it could be repaired later; it would cost money to go online in the Internet cafe, and the money would be saved if the company was online. Therefore, there are quite a few employees. When there is nothing, I usually like to spend time in the office. However, this is a big loss for the company. Among them, the electricity bill (including the air-conditioning fee, the electric light fee), etc., has a large sum, and the later adjustments will bring a relatively large loss to the enterprise.

What should I do if I encounter this situation? Previously, there was no such parental control function on the XP operating system. I only controlled it through a firewall. That is to break off the external network during the off-duty or usual weekends. To a certain extent, this has eliminated the behavior of employees who waste company resources. But it cannot be fundamentally eliminated. As the author found that some employees will bring their own game discs to play stand-alone games. Now with this parental control feature, you can further regulate the time employees use the computer.

If the company can block the time between Saturday and Sunday and the evening from 6 o'clock to the next morning and 6 days. That is, users are not allowed to use the computer during this time. If an employee does need to work overtime, he or she must first write an overtime application. The system administrator then adjusts the relevant time limit based on the overtime application form. Since this time limit is based on a specific user. Therefore, in order to cope with the need, the system administrator can set up a temporary account. When the user needs to use the computer, if it happens to be no longer within the specified time, the system administrator can first let the user use the temporary account. In short, with this setting, users can use the computer within the specified time. This prevents employees from using the office as a "home." After all, similarly dedicated employees, it is estimated that no business manager will like it.

Second: Set up games that employees can play.

In the course of use, the system administrator can also set whether to allow employees to play games on the computer, and which games, etc., as needed. Most companies do not allow employees to play games during business hours. In the past, companies were only able to manage through the system. However, the reduction is minimal. Now if you have Microsoft's "home control" feature, there will be a significant improvement in game control. As in the game control option, all games can be disabled. At this point the employee is not able to play the game.

However, some corporate management may be more user-friendly, allowing employees to play simple games such as mines or other games that managers believe can boost their dynamism. To this end, the system administrator can specify which games the employee can play and which games cannot be played. In the system, the game has a classification by default, such as early childhood games. This is mainly defined by the organization of the Entertainment Software Rating Council. However, this definition may not be suitable for the enterprise. For enterprises, system administrators first need to determine which games the company employees can play, such as games that can enhance the eyesight of employees such as minesweeping. The system administrator can then select the games that can be played in the checkbox below. Only the game employees selected here can play. In addition, the system administrator can also set up a game account if the game can only be played within a certain time. Only this account can play games. Then limit the usage time of this account in the system, such as allowing only this account to be enabled during the noon break. In this case, you can control the time when the user plays the game in disguise. It can be seen that combining several functions of parental control can also achieve some complicated functions.

But for most companies, just set this game control option to prohibit.

Third: Set up programs that employees cannot use.

In corporate network administrators, it is often necessary to restrict employees from using certain applications. For example, employees are not allowed to use instant chat tools such as QQ and MSN; multimedia players are not allowed; input method setting tools are not allowed. It was difficult to limit these tools before. If you need to limit QQ, you need to cooperate with other tools such as firewalls. In the parental control module, it can be easily implemented.

Select the last item "Allow or organize specific applications" option, and a dialog box will pop up. If you select "Allow only children to play specific programs" (this child's name is always not correct), the system will automatically list all the applications installed on the current system disk. This includes some applications that come with the system installation process, such as Windows Mail, and applications that users install on the system disk. In general, all EXE-terminated applications on the system disk are automatically listed.

However, the system can select the application installed on other disks by the following buttons. Normally, it supports not only applications that end in exe, but also batch programs such as bat. The main application selected here is to allow users to run. By default, none of them are selected. For this reason, the system administrator needs special attention when setting it up. According to the design principle of least privilege, the system administrator only needs to select the applications that need to be used. Generally, the application is installed by the administrator after the system is installed. It should be noted here that if an employee installs anti-virus software on his computer, he must select this anti-virus software here. Otherwise, in this user's environment, this anti-virus software will not work properly. This is a very low level error.

If the system administrator does this, but the employee is still trying to run the program, what happens? First, when the user tries to run a restricted application, the system will prompt the user for the application. The program is limited. At the same time, on the error message, there will be a prompt to send the request connection to the administrator using the application. As long as the employee clicks on this connection, the system will automatically send relevant information to the administrator. Then the administrator will use this information when logging in to the system with his own account to determine if the application needs to be opened for this employee. Not only does this have a reminder function in the application, it has similar functions in both game and computer usage time. However, it's important to note that these settings require an administrator account to be able to proceed. In other words, the system administrator needs to protect the administrator account and password. If the administrator account and password are leaked, all settings will be broken.