Any way to disable IE in Vista for specific user?

[Kelemvor]

Sister in law uses AOL for their online browsing and wants to disable IE completely for their kids accounts. Is there any way to do this?

I know I can disable IE completely but not sure if it can be done per account.

Basically for the kids, they want them to have to use AOL for everything since it has more limits and tracking and things than Vista does.

 

[theAnimal]

Set it up to use a non-existent proxy and lock down the Internet Options.

 

[Kelemvor]

Are Proxy Settings on a per user basis? I don't want the parent's account to have anything done with IE at all. If so, that'd work great.

 

[heymrdj]

Sounds like they need to use Vistas parental features and actually do some child rearing. Embrace technology, don't run from it.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: heymrdj
Sounds like they need to use Vistas parental features and actually do some child rearing. Embrace technology, don't run from it.

Yeah, that's the point of the OP. They use AOL as a browser because it has more robust filtering and things. That's why we want to disable IE so they have to use the AOL browser.

 

[mechBgon]

Use Vista's Parental Controls, found in Control Panel. If the kids' accounts are not already Standard User (as opposed to full Administrator), you will need to make them Standard User now (which is a great idea in any event).

Note that if you use Parental Controls and Internet Explorer 7, you can set it up so the kids can ONLY view websites that the parents have specifically "whitelisted." Nothing else, period. So if the parents only allow Disney.com, and the kid tries to go to Google.com to search for "big mellons," the kid won't even get to the Google search page, never mind any of the results.

 

[Kelemvor]

If you'd read the OP and other posts, they are already using parental controls but AOL has better website filtering than Vista does. They just want to disable IE for the kid's accounts if possible. They don't want to have a White List. They just want to use the tracking, filtering, etc that AOL has so want to turn off IE.

 

[CrazyLazy]

How old/computer savvy are these kids? Would making AOL the default browser and deleting all the shortcuts etc. for internet explorer cut it? The problem with totally disabling Explorer is that you use it to browse files etc on your computer, not just for the internet. Beyond that I don't real know.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
If you'd read the OP and other posts, they are already using parental controls but AOL has better website filtering than Vista does. They just want to disable IE for the kid's accounts if possible. They don't want to have a White List. They just want to use the tracking, filtering, etc that AOL has so want to turn off IE.

Right, so use Vista's Parental Controls to turn off IE, if that's what you want. Use the "Allow and block specific programs" feature.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
If you'd read the OP and other posts, they are already using parental controls but AOL has better website filtering than Vista does. They just want to disable IE for the kid's accounts if possible. They don't want to have a White List. They just want to use the tracking, filtering, etc that AOL has so want to turn off IE.

Right, so use Vista's Parental Controls to turn off IE, if that's what you want.

Where is that? I never saw anything for that in the parental controls.

If you set it to only let them go to specific sites, that breaks AOL as well, not just IE. Already tried that.

Kids are 16 and 6. It's the 16 y/o they are most worried about.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
If you'd read the OP and other posts, they are already using parental controls but AOL has better website filtering than Vista does. They just want to disable IE for the kid's accounts if possible. They don't want to have a White List. They just want to use the tracking, filtering, etc that AOL has so want to turn off IE.

Right, so use Vista's Parental Controls to turn off IE, if that's what you want.

Where is that? I never saw anything for that in the parental controls.

If you set it to only let them go to specific sites, that breaks AOL as well, not just IE. Already tried that.

Kids are 16 and 6. It's the 16 y/o they are most worried about.

Use the "Allow and block specific programs" feature. This should also prevent workarounds like portable browsers running from a memory stick.