Restricting apps when setting up parental controls

in parental controls,under the apps tab, when selecting the "dont allow" option next to 'Allow app store apps', the appstore and itunes still appear in my childs user acc. How can i set the controls to exclude the appstore or set it for administrator permission etc., while stoll allowing the standard applications the came with the computer. an explanation would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

Hi nite41, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, when that completes...
Trash this file...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
Reboot.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Any diff?

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Hi,
I am the Admin user of my MacBook Pro InteL C2D. I'm using Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11. I had set up a 'Standard' Account on my laptop for my flatmate to use. But when I click on the Parental Controls of this standard account, the whole preference pane freezes. And it stays that way until I force quit it. What could be the problem?
I literally gone through every forum regarding this problem and almost everyone of them says to delete the preference file(s). So, I deleted the preference.plist and preference.account.plist file from Preferences folder in Library. No use.
So, I ultimately backed up my data and went for a complete 'Erase and Install'. Sure the computer is a lot faster now, but the above problem still persists!!
Help please.
Cheers.

Hi nite41, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, when that completes...
Trash this file...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
Reboot.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Any diff?

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I am running ML 10.8.2 on a MBAir.
I logged in as the local administrator account and tried to set up the parental controls for the local student accounts. I unchecked the "Disable use of Dictation" but kept coming back as checked.
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Unlock to allow changes to be made by clicking on the padlock icon.
type your password to unlock.
After you make your changes such as unchecking or checking boxes, click the lock again to lock it.
Restart the computer and see if it reverted back again.

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How do I set up parental controls on my apple account, I want to censor the books that she's dowloading. We use the same account Thanks!

Turning off in-app purchases and the App Store itself would be the best bet for you. You can always unlock these features as needed and lock them again.
Apart from restricting purchases, there are a number of other restrictions you can setup. You can even setup a safe browser with remote parental controls from the App Store, like the one from Mobicip. You may find this tutorial to be helpful: How to setup Parental Controls on the iPad.
Hope this helps.
Disclaimer: This response is posted by a Mobicip representative who may stand to gain indirectly from it.

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Hello everyone!
Is it possible to set up parental control in MultiPoint Server 2012. I'd like to filter adult web sites.
Kind regards,
Pavel

I found an issue with Multipoint Dashboard that when student select to signout and then select "Cancel" to signout to go back to the session, the Multipoint Dashboard filtering is no longer applied to the session.
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hey world
we've had this issue for a while now where our imac crashes when my daughter attempts to upload an image to her tumblr page.
this isn't just a browser crash - its one of those doozys where the whole screen goes grey and we get the message asking us to shut the computer down by holding the power button etc etc.
we tried resetting the browser (firefox initially), trashed the prefs and disabled all addons. still it crashes on upload. we tried chrome, still it crashes.
the tricky thing is, when we repeated the steps under my login (admin), it all works fine.
after much testing we have narrowed this down to the fact that my daughters account has parental controls active.
the controls are set to limit login times, and for a maximum of 1 hour on school nights. there are no limitations to the system or firewalls, just the time limits.
when I deactivate parental controls she can post to tumblr just fine. as soon as I switch the controls back on, bam! it crashes.
there is a workaround for this - we discovered that safari works just fine with parental controls in place.
but we'd really rather use firefox. and surely we should be able to..?
i thought I'd post our problem to see if anyone else has experienced this when using the parental controls settings. I'm wondering if upgrading to lion will resolve this problem - so if anyone has done this and can advise if it will work, please let me know.
our system is as follows:
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2gb 667 mhz ddr2 SDRAM
OS X 10.5.8
thank you!

Hmmm, I can't test as I have no tubler account, but some differences between Firefox & Safari is that Safari uses Sys Prefs fpr things like Proxies & DNS, where FF can use it's own.

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I have a OS 10.3.9. Need to set up parental controls to limit access to certain sites. Can I do it through the operating system? Or does anyone know a Mac compatible program (e.g. cyber sitter that I could use?)
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Hello, pcake.
In case something in this link might be of help to you,
Internet safety for children
Some Third-party software solutions are listed.
In OS X 10.3 you can set Limitations for:
• opening all System Preference panes
• changing a password
• burning discs
• removing items from the Dock
• opening individual applications
• using the Simple Finder
as described in this Apple Support article — Mac OS X: How to manage user access to applications, system preferences, and disc burning via "Capabilities," "Limitations," or "Parental Controls"
The X Lab link illustrates some of the Parental Controls available in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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I have a teenager that has learned how to delete his history, is there a way to lock the history to where I can monitor the sites he visits without setting up parental control program on the computer?

I have a teenager that has learned how to delete his history, is there a way to lock the history to where I can monitor the sites he visits without setting up parental control program on the computer?

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Could anyone provide me with a link to request that: blocking or locking (via password) individual apps be a feature that Apple developers integrate into their new software updates?
Reasons:
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2) Preventing access to apps that include unfiltered access to the internet via built-in browsers, even when Safari is disabled. Examples include Google and Bing search which are rated only 4+
3) Apple's current Restrictions features are decent, but put blanket restrictions on many legitimately good apps when the appstore is disabled. Makes functionality of any iDevice very limited.
I know I'm not the only one requesting these features, and the only solutions I see on the web are jailbreaking the device, but I do not see that as an option.
I see the people at the following 3rd-party organization developing such an app, but shouldn't this be a native feature provided by Apple? http://www.appcertain.com/
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Hello, I wondered if you got through to Microsoft and they managed to change your parental control options? I am having the same problem as you with downloading apps on my son's phone - need parental control, but it doesn't let me carry it out comes out with a error code and says contact support.
I tried to contact Microsoft but they put me on hold - sending my call to America and India (was on hold for an hour or so). I have logged a complaint and emailed Microsoft but still nobody gets back to me.
So currently have a phone for my son but he cannot download apps. Dont want to reinstall as he will have to change all his details on Xbox and all his avitars etc (friends) - we want to keep his same email address.
Driving me crazy and Microsoft not coming forward with any advice. All I want to do is adjust my parental control to let my son download apps.
Appreciate any help please. Thank You

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Hello, when I set parental controls on the guest account, I still have trouble going to "allowed" sites. An example is, I allow access to google and amazon but when I try to access gmail it won't let me. It says something about a bad connection. The same with amazon; access to the main page is fine but when I try to sign into my account it won't let me.
Am I missing something?
thx

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It is not possible to set parental control on the administrator account, so you have two choices: create a new user account to apply parental control or use the Guest user for that. You can set parental control in System Preferences -> Parental Control

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