Halo, Vista, Parental Controls

lOnce I put my son's standard account under Parental Control on Vista Home
Premium, he couldn't start a local server or access an Internet one. I think,
from searching around, I could make his account an administrator account to
get around this, but I'm not toon keen ongiving the kid thast much power.
Does anyone know how to tel Parental Controls that Halo and Halo2 are allowed
to create/access servers?

Oh, and I want to do this KEEPING UAC. Despite many comments in these forums
and in the press UAC is fine - it actually caught a rogue process trying to
fire up a key watcher on my computer.

"mpersico" wrote:

> lOnce I put my son's standard account under Parental Control on Vista Home
> Premium, he couldn't start a local server or access an Internet one. I think,
> from searching around, I could make his account an administrator account to
> get around this, but I'm not toon keen ongiving the kid thast much power.
> Does anyone know how to tel Parental Controls that Halo and Halo2 are allowed
> to create/access servers?

"mpersico" <mpersico@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C1648A75-FE84-4BF3-A2B1-B6B0442C52F0@microsoft.com...
> Oh, and I want to do this KEEPING UAC. Despite many comments in these
> forums
> and in the press UAC is fine - it actually caught a rogue process trying
> to
> fire up a key watcher on my computer.
>
> "mpersico" wrote:
>
>> lOnce I put my son's standard account under Parental Control on Vista
>> Home
>> Premium, he couldn't start a local server or access an Internet one. I
>> think,
>> from searching around, I could make his account an administrator account
>> to
>> get around this, but I'm not toon keen ongiving the kid thast much power.
>> Does anyone know how to tel Parental Controls that Halo and Halo2 are
>> allowed
>> to create/access servers?

All hail the UAC, it actually does work. Could it be easier, sure, but for
now I'll take it.

Halo 1? or Halo 2? I'd hope that if you were playing Halo 2 that it would be
savoy with a Parental Setup system. If you're playing Halo 1, there is a
chance that there may be some compatibility issues if you're not running in
administrator mode, which of course negates the whole "Parental Control"
setup.

What's probably occuring is Halo is trying to write files to areas of the
drive that your son doesn't have access too. Like in the Program Files
folder. What you "Could" try doing is installing Halo into their
C:\Users\<Name> folder.

Try this... Uninstall the game from your system.
Login to your Son's account, and run the Halo installer. If it doesn't allow
you to install the game right click the setup and "Run As Administrator" or
other user, and use your admin account.
When the game asks where you want to install the game, switch the folder to
something like:

C:\Users\Son's Name\Halo

Game should install ok, then try running it again and see if it allows
internet games without running in admin mode.

If not, well I apologize, there's gotta be an easier way to do this, I'm
sure someone else will chime in soon. Lots of smart cookies here.

-A.

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> "mpersico" <mpersico@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C1648A75-FE84-4BF3-A2B1-B6B0442C52F0@microsoft.com...
> > Oh, and I want to do this KEEPING UAC. Despite many comments in these
> > forums
> > and in the press UAC is fine - it actually caught a rogue process trying
> > to
> > fire up a key watcher on my computer.
> >
> > "mpersico" wrote:
> >
> >> lOnce I put my son's standard account under Parental Control on Vista
> >> Home
> >> Premium, he couldn't start a local server or access an Internet one. I
> >> think,
> >> from searching around, I could make his account an administrator account
> >> to
> >> get around this, but I'm not toon keen ongiving the kid thast much power.
> >> Does anyone know how to tel Parental Controls that Halo and Halo2 are
> >> allowed
> >> to create/access servers?
>
> All hail the UAC, it actually does work. Could it be easier, sure, but for
> now I'll take it.
>
> Halo 1? or Halo 2? I'd hope that if you were playing Halo 2 that it would be
> savoy with a Parental Setup system. If you're playing Halo 1, there is a
> chance that there may be some compatibility issues if you're not running in
> administrator mode, which of course negates the whole "Parental Control"
> setup.
>
> What's probably occuring is Halo is trying to write files to areas of the
> drive that your son doesn't have access too. Like in the Program Files
> folder. What you "Could" try doing is installing Halo into their
> C:\Users\<Name> folder.
>
> Try this... Uninstall the game from your system.
> Login to your Son's account, and run the Halo installer. If it doesn't allow
> you to install the game right click the setup and "Run As Administrator" or
> other user, and use your admin account.
> When the game asks where you want to install the game, switch the folder to
> something like:
>
> C:\Users\Son's Name\Halo
>
> Game should install ok, then try running it again and see if it allows
> internet games without running in admin mode.
>
> If not, well I apologize, there's gotta be an easier way to do this, I'm
> sure someone else will chime in soon. Lots of smart cookies here.
>
> -A.

I'll give this a shot. We're working with Halo1 - I got Vista upgrade and
Halo2 for Xmas for the kids but the on-board graphics won't cut it.:-) Time
for new graphics cards. In the meantime, I'll see if the reinstall to a less
secure area helps with creating servers.

And if anyone else has an answer, please feel free to chime in. Whaet really
suprized me is that fact that a year after Vista's release, the answer didn't
bubble up on a Web search. I CAN'T be the only parent with this problem...
>

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