Editorial Review:

Product Description:
KidsWatch is a family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today in how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use, while accentuating on the positive.

Your children are growing in a computer age and many are quite adept at using software and browsing the web. And other outside web users are well aware of that too. Protect your kids and control their use of the PC. KidsWatch is a 2008 Award Winning family product that can meet the challenges facing parents today on how to protect children from the negative aspects of computer use. Help your kids stay away from trouble and take the next step in parental supervision - computer supervision! Limit Internet surfing, chatting & game play. Receive email notifications when suspect words or phrases are encountered in chat conversations. Monitor chat, websites visited, programs used and computer use. Install today to create a peaceful & safe environment. It's like an electronic babysitter for your PC! Install KidsWatch today to create a peaceful and safe PC environment. EASY TO USE & INSTALL Free Technical Support / System Requirements - PC - Windows 2000, XP, Vista with 133 Mhz processor or better and10MB available hard-disk space and 32MB RAM, CD ROM Drive Protect Windows access - Restrict access to the contents of selected drives ;Remove the Run command from the Start menu; Restrict access to Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs; Restrict Taskbar and Start Menu property changes; Restrict Display property changes; Prevent users from connecting to the Windows Update Web Site









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Rating: - Dissenting Point of View
This product is very easy to install and configure. While the graphical interface is quite archaic, the functions are well placed and simple to use.

For monitoring the amount of time someone spends on the internet or computer itself, the software excels.

The reason for the 2 star rating is the fact that the company claims to have an effective system for protecting kids on the internet. This is a false claim and I will explain why.

The software claims to have 2 systems in place for disallowing the computer user to surf to smut sites. One of them is general categorical site blocking, the other blocks everything except URLs the administrator manually inputs.

The problem with the former system, blocking sites by category, is the it is too restrictive for general use if set to be safe, and not restrictive enough if set to be useful for general internet use.

The second option is the one I was most interest in: the ability to block everything on the internet except sites manually placed into a "trusted sites" list. This is exactly what I did. I blocked everything except this list and made the list using young childrens' sites.

Problem?? It doesn't work!!!! The software blocks everything and ignores the trusted list of sites. Very, very frustrating.

Bottom line, this software is excellent if you want your kids to have limited time on the computer, it is completely ineffective for making sure your kids are safe while online.

Thanks for reading! : ]

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Rating: - Useless
* The product was impossible to set up and ridiculously cumbersome to use. I returned it. ...

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Rating: - Does not really improve much on Vista parental controls
good idea and easy to install and configure, but i could never get the remote admin feature to work, and too many normal websites like google and yahoo got blocked, and the limit on total hours feature assumes you login logout each time pc is used, it cannot detect actual pc activity, so if you leave the pc on, but dont use it, you come back to find out you are locked out. I have reverted to using only the Vista builtin parental controls which cover most of the bases.

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Rating: - Better Than Being the "Screen Police"!
* The kids can argue with you all day long about more computer time, but when the computer shuts down automatically after a pre-determined amount of time, it's final! I love this program. It's not quite as intuitive as I had hoped, but then again I'm no computer genius . . . ...

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Rating: - Sounds good in theory
This product probably works great, but I've not actually gotten it installed/set-up completely to thoroughly try it out. I want to use this on my Vista machine, and Vista is a bit foreign to me to begin with. I procrastinated in installing it after it arrived, and then when I did I can't say the installation screens were too clear on what exacty I was doing. Shortly after the install we started having problems getting to the internet. The computer would just chug and chug and chug. I'm not sure if this product was the reason, but I ended up uninstalling to try and remedy the problem and haven't gotten around to re-installing.

I have two children ages 8 and 5. During the set-up I was prompted to set-up a password for each user. I'm not sure if I had to, but there weren't clear instructions on what the purpose of each field was, and whether it was required. Needless to say, the 5 year old was confused and required assistance each time he wanted to just use the computer to play a CD game. This became a bit frustrating for both of us.

I'm sure this product is great-- I was impressed by previous user's reviews. I've just not been successful in understanding how to properly set this program up.