Set up Family Safety for a Microsoft account in Windows 8
You can use Family Safety to protect a user account in Windows 8 that was created by using a Microsoft account. Doing this enables you to protect your children from content on the local PC or from web content that might be harmful to children, to control access times to the PC, and to determine which games, programs, and apps your children are allowed to use.
Note This article describes using Windows 8 together 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 the mouse to the upper-right or lower-left corner of the Start screen.
2. Click
Search.
3. Click
Settings.
4. Enter
Family Safety.
5. In the left pane, click
Set up Family Safety for any user.
6. In the next window, click the account for which you want to control access rights and restrictions.
7. Leave the settings unchanged, and click
Web filtering to determine which web contents this person can display.
8. Make sure that the
[...] can only use the websites I allow option is enabled in the upper pane. Click
Set web filtering level.
9. In the next window, accept the default
Online communication setting, or select the
Designed for children option.
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.
11. Click
Time limits to select the days and times that your children can access the PC.
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.
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.
14. Then, click
User Settings to edit additional options.
15. Click
Microsoft Store and game restrictions to restrict the use of games.
16. Click
Set game and Microsoft Store ratings to determine that this person can use only the installed games that are age-appropriate.
17. In the next window, select a game rating level that's based on the age of your child.
18. To block or allow specific locally installed games, click
Allow or Block Games on the left bar. Otherwise, click
User Settings.
19. To allow or block access for this person to specific apps that are locally installed on this PC, click
App restrictions.
20. Select the appropriate check box to determine which apps this person can use.
21. Close the window. The changes are immediately applied.
22. The next time that this user signs in, a notification is displayed that states that this account is monitored by Family Safety.
