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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:42 PM

Apple (uk) ad targeting Parental Controls

Just wandering around on you tube and discovered an apple (uk) ad targeting parental controls, with the 'naughty step'. The Mac says something about blocking items being "isn't that what kids want to do?". The idea behind parental controls is to block
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, March 30, 2007 1:31 PM

Reading WPC logs in C#

Here is a conversion of the WPCEvents.h file that is used with the vista SDK to get the parts of the various crimson events converted into c#. I have written about this file before and how the parts are connected together and how all the numbers work.
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, March 02, 2007 3:04 PM

Log Viewer, behind the scenes

The log viewer in Parental Controls reads in the public available system logs and turns them into the data you can see in the control panel. The logs are brought in from a couple of places, the System logs, the Application logs and the Parental controls
Posted by David_Bennett | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:54 AM

Parental Controls used by everyone

Looks like Bill Gates is using parental controls for his children these days, nice to see that people within the company are buying off and using the technology as well. We have had a surprisingly small amount of negative press on the parental controls
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, February 09, 2007 1:37 PM

Parental Controls and Press Coverage

We have had a lot of good press coverage from Parental Controls over the past few days, which has been great. Bill Gates and various other people have been pressing it as one of the main reasons to upgrade to Vista, I think it is a very good reason to
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 2:03 PM

Making a Game marked as run in Parental Controls

For a game to show up in Parental Controls as being run a few things need to happen. First the game must have a GDF file so it will be properly registered with the Game Explorer. Once the game is correctly registered with the Game Explorer it will show
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:26 PM

Overwhelmingness of Parental Controls?

There have been some comments about various aspects of Parental Controls being overwhelming, specifically in this post . It is true that some of the existing parental control companies will not be so keen on some features, however there is a lot of area
Posted by David_Bennett | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:37 PM

Summary of Vista Parental Controls Features

Short summary of Windows parental control features: Game Restrictions – ability to restrict games based on ratings and on descriptors associated with the game. These are based on ESRB ratings, and other rating systems from other countries. Application
Posted by David_Bennett | 1 Comments
Monday, January 29, 2007 2:27 PM

HTTP Extension for Windows Parental Controls

To make Windows Parental Controls work better with browsers and other programs that support http, the filter in vista sends back a custom error number when the page is blocked. This number is 450, an app can recognise this error code and display a blocked
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:07 PM

Opening up the WPC Control Panel from the command line

It is possible to open up the windows parental controls control panel from the command line, well any control panel. You pass in the name of the control panel to open up and it opens it up. Nice and easy. For the parental controls panel the syntax is:
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, January 19, 2007 11:51 AM

Different exclusion lists

There are 4 different exclusion lists in Windows Parental Controls that are used to control which programs and which urls are allowed to be connected to. The two main lists are the HttpExemptionList and the UrlExemptionList, these are modifiable lists
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, January 12, 2007 12:20 PM

Parental Controls on a Domain

It is possible to turn on parental controls if your machine is on a domain, but default it is disabled. It is not possible to turn on parental controls for Business skews of Vista since parental controls is not present on the machine at all in these skews
Posted by David_Bennett | 1 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 2:08 PM

Adding a URL Exemption in c#

The system contains a list of applications which are exempted from parental controls. This list can be accessed via WMI and it should be modified in the install process for any application that requires free Internet access. The way to do this is to access
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, November 17, 2006 5:25 PM

GDF Xml file format

The GDF file is an xml file associated with games in vista. The file gives information about the various ratings associated with the game along with the name of the game. The XML file format is fairly simple and is as follows: <GameDefinitionFile>
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:40 PM

.net Binding for WPC Events

The WPC event system logs a series of events to the WPC crimson channel. The channel contents is viewable inside the log viewer and it has a path of: Microsoft-Windows-ParentalControls/Operational. The events are logged with a variety of different parameters,
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
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