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realtek1 · 5 years ago

:D this was perfect; matched my search and solved my problem in less than 5 minutes. Fantastic recipe.

RainyHarbor · 5 years ago

Is there a way of limiting the total time a person is online or even on the computer during a 24 hour period? I know that I can use net user to limit the hours you can log onto the net but I'm more interested to limiting my kids to two hours a day at the most. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Right now I'm using a third party software (Child Control) and it isn't working at all and I've followed the instructions numerous times. Thanks for your help.

Jim

Compton · 5 years ago

Ok, heres the story, my younger brother has been getting up from bed at 1 am in the morning to come downstairs and play online games. When i found out because my dad told me he knew how to check user logon times, (Plz could u post a tutorial on how to do that). I was immediately angered and was thinking of a way to restrict him. I believe this is the way to do it. Thank you for your post. Is there a way to check user log in times on Windows XP home edtion. Plz can u tell me.

Traci · 5 years ago

I have tried this several times and I am just not able to get it to work. I get a message that the user name is not found or that I have entered an illegal time. :-(

MickeyMouse · 5 years ago

<ul id="quote"><h6>Traci wrote:</h6>I have tried this several times and I am just not able to get it to work. I get a message that the user name is not found or that I have entered an illegal time. :-(</ul>

Are you sure you are using a valid user name?

Copy the contents of your cmd window here and I'll try to help.

guest · 5 years ago

does the net command auto log off

Anonymous · 5 years ago

Is there away to limit a person in hours and not spicific times? for exaple only 2 hours a day?

Martin · 5 years ago

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>Is there away to limit a person in hours and not spicific times? for exaple only 2 hours a day?</ul>

I do have a program which limits a users acces on a winNT/2K/XP account. It is still under development - no fancy GUI yet :-) It runs as a service and a person will need administrator rights in order to disable it.

Pricing hasn't been an issue yet but I'll guess EUR 19.95 will be the price for the final product.

During my research I did find another product which had the same fuctionallity (a then some) - I believe it was called KidWatch or something similar.

I'll guess I'll have my program up and running at the end of this month (september 2004) or shortly thereafter. The no-GUI version is running at my home with (2 kids and a total 5 computers).

Feel free to contact me for further information at timelimit_at_zacho_dot_org (no homepage yet either).

Sincerely,
Martin Zacho

Anonymous · 5 years ago

So what happens if I set the access cut-off time to be, say, 9:00 pm, and the user is logged on? Does the user get any kind of message or are they arbitrarily logged off?

Kent

ray42 · 1 week ago

WinXP does not force the user off no matter how you configure the "net user" command. The only functionality provided by this command is that it prevents users from logging on to the computer outside of the time given. Windows Vista and Windows 7 have parental controls that will in fact boot the user off the computer however there are no warning messages at all!
You may want to try a product such as Piranha Designs Time Monitor which not only prevents users from logging on when you don't want them to but also limits the amount of hours they can use the computer.
The website is http://www.time-monitor.com

Lindy · 5 years ago

Thank you so much!!

balagan · 4 years ago

You can set uato logoff in the security policy

Anonymous · 4 years ago

I love this site...this is my first visit and I am soooo impressed!

In respect of the "net user time" command how does one go about enforcing this each time the pc is booted up?

I have five accounts with different access times and I NEED to enforce the limitation of internet access.

Regards

ADC

hendergk · 4 years ago

I looking for something to restrict access to certain software program for a limit time period. that is alraedy built into window xp.

Anonymous · 4 years ago

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>Is there away to limit a person in hours and not spicific times? for exaple only 2 hours a day?</ul>

Here you can find kidwatch
https://www.cbsits.com/kidswatch/tc30/TC30_Page...

Anonymous · 4 years ago

Thanks this is a great tip.

gramps175 · 4 years ago

I, too, am unable to get past the dreaded command syntax error. I checked my username with 'net user' (it has spaces in the name) but even using '/times:all' I get 'The syntax of this command is:' and the generic example. Any ideas?

blouwagie · 4 years ago

I've been using Enuff for quite a while to limit kid's computer time. It works well if you are willing to live with:
- You can no longer use fast user switching
- Whenever you re-install your system you need to recontact enuff, explain what happened to get the install going on the reinstalled system

Regards
Bart

YoJim · 3 years ago

After I input the formula, DOS comes back with the following:

[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password | *> /ADD [options] [DOMAIN]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]

And another question:

Once you input time and day limits, couln't a savvy user simply change Windows time and/or day to regain access?

risherz · 3 years ago

<ul id="quote"><h6>YoJim wrote:</h6>After I input the formula, DOS comes back with the following:

[username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password | *> /ADD [options] [DOMAIN]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]

And another question:

Once you input time and day limits, couln't a savvy user simply change Windows time and/or day to regain access?</ul>

The answer to your first question is here, here and here. All three articles are basically the same but the format is a little different, so I thought I'd just give you the links to all of them.

And as for your second question. The answer is ... Yes. If the user is smart enough and has access (usually the user doesn't have access) to change things around then it is possible to regain access.

Hope this helps :D
Risherz

Anonymous · 3 years ago

Does this limit computer logon time? It looks like that is the intent, but it also seems it may be internet access.

Anonymous · 3 years ago

Ok, what if I accidentally used the parameters net user accountname /times:

(Null, which means the account is not allowed to be accesed)

What if I did this to an admin account, which happened to be the ONLY account on the computer.

How can I bypass this?

How can I get an available command prompt during start up so that I can re enter parameter times?

I know it was dumb to do, but thanks in advance.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

<ul id="quote"><h6>Compton wrote:</h6>Ok, heres the story, my younger brother has been getting up from bed at 1 am in the morning to come downstairs and play online games. When i found out because my dad told me he knew how to check user logon times, (Plz could u post a tutorial on how to do that). I was immediately angered and was thinking of a way to restrict him. I believe this is the way to do it. Thank you for your post. Is there a way to check user log in times on Windows XP home edtion. Plz can u tell me.</ul>

I don't think you can do this in Windows XP Home Edition. You can in Windows XP Professional and Media Center editions. Logged in as an admin, go to the run box and type secpol.msc. Find you way to local policies/audit policies. You can audit for login or logoff success and failure. But yes, this would probably work to restrict your brother. Even on XP Home I think.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

<ul id="quote"><h6>Compton wrote:</h6>how to check user logon times.</ul>

Event manager

alecks · 10 months ago

i have problem i dont know if this tool will fix it or not
i have domain on windows 2003 .. users can double log ... for example
Test1 logged on pc1
and Test1 also logged on pc2
so 2 ppl use the same user ... how can i disable this ?

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