Do children spend many hours in front of the computer? Controlling its use is very easy by following these steps

With the arrival of school holidays comes one of the most feared times for parents, especially when they are still working. In many cases, parents wonder how to deal with their children's leisure hours now that they don't have a nursery or school nearby.

And it is that if camps or extracurricular classes are not an option, the hours at home can be tempting to spend in front of the computer and given the dangers that lurk today on the network, he is not in favor of more to know where the smallest of the house navigate or at least put a little control about it.And in Windows, this task is very easy.

And it is that despite the fact that the Internet today is a tremendously useful tool, it can also be very dangerous if it is not used properly, especially by the smallest members of the household. Therefore, and to protect them, we are going to know how to control this activity from Windows.

Steps to follow

"To achieve this we are going to work on the Windows 10 HOSTS file, a type of text file that is used to store the correspondence between Internet domains and IP addresses. We are going to open it and edit it in the way that interests us."

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To find the HOSTS file we go to the System32 folder. We must follow the following path on our PC: /Windows/System32/drivers/etc (without quotes)."

"Once found, we must open Notepad>"

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At this point it is important that we activate All files>"

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From Notepad>127.0.0.1 www.direcciónqueremoscontrolar.com."

"When saving, we must again check All files, otherwise the file will be saved in .txt format and will not serve our purpose."

Where right now it appears www.direcciónqueremoscontrolar.com we will place the full web address of the page that we do not want our child to access and so we must do (adding different lines), if what we want is to avoid access to different web pages.One line per page and all with the same initial structure.

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In the case of having modified the HOSTS> file"

In this way, when trying to enter any of the marked web pages, the browser will return a message advising that it cannot access that web. It is, however, a system that we must use with caution, since if we load it with too many processes, we can cause our computer to slow down.