IE Parental controls

**Zonie** · June 3rd, 2009, 07:03 PM

Have a unique question. Have a client with parental controls in IE. Everything is blocked except the sites they have been given permission to. They want me to setup 2 new PC's the same way. Is there a file or something I can copy to the new PC's instead of sitting there, bringing up each site and giving permission, or is this a registry controlled item?

TIA

**NooNoo** · June 4th, 2009, 04:52 AM

What versions of IE and what Windows?

**Zonie** · June 4th, 2009, 08:04 AM

Win XP Pro and IE 6.0-7.0 is installed on the PC's.

**CeeBee** · June 4th, 2009, 09:02 AM

Export/import
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
Or use IEAK to deploy the settings (feasible if you want to deploy IE+settings on several machines)
How are you protecting the machines from bypassing restrictions using firefox?
You may want to look into setting permissions on the router...

**NooNoo** · June 4th, 2009, 11:28 AM

So not parental controls... those are available on Vista... you mean Content Advisor... in theory you could copy the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies to the other machines and it would work.

**Zonie** · June 4th, 2009, 04:22 PM

Thanks for the correction NooNoo, it is content advisor. I will try the import of this registry key tomorrow and see if it works. Thank you.

**Zonie** · June 4th, 2009, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by CeeBee

Export/import
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
Or use IEAK to deploy the settings (feasible if you want to deploy IE+settings on several machines)
How are you protecting the machines from bypassing restrictions using firefox?
You may want to look into setting permissions on the router...

Cannot set restictions on the router. It would cause problems for other PC's that need total access.

**NooNoo** · June 5th, 2009, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by Zonie

Cannot set restictions on the router. It would cause problems for other PC's that need total access.

What router... mine will allow restrictions by connection...

**CeeBee** · June 5th, 2009, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Zonie

Cannot set restictions on the router. It would cause problems for other PC's that need total access.

A cheapo wrt54g with dd-wrt firmware will do just fine, allows to set groups by ip/mac and apply various policies.
Pretty much any half-decent router will allow group-based filtering