Archive for June 13th, 2007

Windows Vista - How add additional clocks to your PC

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Windows Vista provides option to add additional clocks to your PC. This can be done using the Date Time settings available in Control Panel section.

As shown above the Date Time dialog contains an extra tab, Additional Clocks which would allow you to define the extra clocks and the Time Zone for the clocks. This would be very helpful if you are working in a different Time Zones. For example if you need to monitor three different time zones, then you need to set these time zones for each additional clocks respectively. And if you have selected show this clock option then these clocks would be displayed in the when you click on the Date Time in the Task Bar.

Windows Vista - How to block websites using parental control

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Window Vista has an option for blocking access to web sites using Parental Controls. This can be accessed by clicking the Control Panel link followed by Parental Control option. From this option you can select the user account for which the access restriction needs to be applied. 

Select the On option for the Parental Controls section. This would enable the Web Restrictions and on navigating through Web Restriction link, the following screen will be displayed.

selecting Block some websites or content would enable the Edit the Allow and Block list.

Using the above screen you can either block or allow access to specific sites.

A very useful features that can put to use effectively by all parent ;-).