Time limit for pc usage

Last update on April 12, 2009 07:11 PM by jak58
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Time limit for pc usage

If you have multiple user accounts, it is possible using the NET USER command to limit working hours in each account, so that your children spend too much time in front of the PC for example.

To do this, you must have at least one administrator account (protected by a password) and a limited account. The administrator has more rights than the limited, therefore we can control the limited account from the account administrator.

Here's how it works:
Log into the Administrator account.
Go to Start> Run and type CMD then click OK.
In the command prompt, type the following command, adapting to your needs: 

NET USER user_account/TIME:day,start_time-end_time


What is in upper case is invariant. Other parameters are:

user_account is the name of the limited account user a (control)
the day of the week to limit the use of the PC, you can define a range of days like this: start_time-end_time
start_time-end_time: time slot where the use of PC is permitted
You can define several time slots, separated by a semicolon (;).
When you press the "Enter", you'll have this "The command completed successfully." If this is not the case, then you have probably made a mistake somewhere.

Examples:
• 
net user Test /time:Saturday-Monday,15:00-21:00


Limit the use of PC as Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 15:00 to 21:00. Outside this range, the user "Test" will receive an error message when trying to connect.

• 
net user Test /time:Saturday,15:00-16:00;Saturday,20:00-21:00


will use the PC only on Saturday from 15:00 to 16:00 and from 20:00 to 21:00.
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