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8/6/2021

I am on the Windows Vista Parental controls team, working on the next version of windows and specifically the parental controls aspects of it. I worked on the web filter, and many other aspects of the system from the control panel up.

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HTTP Extension for Windows Parental Controls

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Opening up the WPC Control Panel from the command line

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Different exclusion lists

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