I want to limit the time my kids have on a program. How do I do it?

First, go to “Parental Control”.

Then click on “No Work – No Play”.

Once you reach the menu, skip to “Set Restrictions for programs”.

Let’s try doing this for “Gamepad”. Click on the Gamepad icon on step 1, then on step 2. Click on the time and choose 30 mins. You can also try step 3 if you wish to set a scheduled model for the program to be available. 

Click “Finish” and these policies stay in effect for this particular user. For other users, you’ll need to set this again. If you have multiple children using the same computer, check our help topic on Child Accounts.

Now try opening “Gamepad” on the program tab.

As you can see, after 29 minutes elapsed, you get a warning that only one minute is remaining before closing.

Once that happens, the program closes and becomes locked with the following notification: