
RELATED: How to Add and Monitor a Child's Account in Windows 10 And, as we’ll talk about here, you can even impose time restrictions for local user accounts. You can filter web sites at the router level. If you’re comfortable working with Group Policy, it’s not hard to restrict users to running specified programs. The good news is that you can still use local accounts and impose some of these same limits.

You also have to set the kids up with child accounts, which can impose some limits you may not want. The downside is that to use these controls, all members of the family must have Microsoft accounts. They let you limit web browsing, which apps kids can use, and the times kids can use the computer.


In Windows 10, Parental controls offer some nice features for monitoring kids’ accounts.
