{"id":470,"date":"2017-11-11T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:12:31","slug":"windows-accounts-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2017\/11\/11\/windows-accounts-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows accounts for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While being logged in with my Microsoft Account I did not manage to create local accounts for the kids. There is this nice and fluffy &#8220;Create accounts for your family&#8221; system, but that implies that you create Microsoft Accounts for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to do that for kids. Sorry Microsoft, they are kids, they should not need cloud-based accounts yet.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently you <strong>can<\/strong> create additional local account if you&#8217;re logged in on a local account. <strong>Great<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no GUI to set the time limits for the kids if they are using a local account. You have to do this one the command line. e.g. with<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>net user kid1 \/times:Sa,08:00-20:00<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/articles\/set-time-limits-windows-10\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While being logged in with my Microsoft Account I did not manage to create local accounts for the kids. There is this nice and fluffy &#8220;Create accounts for your family&#8221; system, but that implies that you create Microsoft Accounts for everybody. I refuse to do that for kids. Sorry Microsoft, they are kids, they should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}