Windows 10: Enabling my child to download certain programs

Hi, I've setup my son as a child account on accounts.microsoft.com and have the 'family safety' app. I have the main 'organizer' account. My son is in boarding school oversees and he's really unhappy that he can't download certain apps that I approve of. I don't want to give him my authorization password or kick him off the microsoft family. On top of that the boarding school may have certain things that they block from their side. When he tries to download the app, its says that it requires 'elevation'. I am trying to see if I can download programs like VNC or Parsec to download th

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I can't use certain features on Forza Horizon 3 due to parental control.

Hi,

If you're using a child account, there are certain limitations imposed on your Xbox account. This could be the reasons as to why you can't access certain features on the game. To resolve this issue, you need to manage the privacy and online safety settings
of your child account by using the parent account associated to it. To give you an idea, only the parent account is eligible to manage the privacy and online safety settings of the child account. To get started, kindly perform the following steps:

• Sign in the parent account on this link.
• Select the Child account.
• Make the changes that you need on the privacy and online safety settings.

Let us know with the result after performing the suggested solution above.

 

Unable to remove child account from Family

Thanks Elise. Your suggestion worked. I contacted live chat option via "Get Help" app.

Just for others who read this in future I had performed the following steps to solve the issue.

1. Log into Microsoft Family Safety
   
2. Select 3 dots on the top right of child's card & select "Remove consent for this child's account"
   
3. It then warns, "You are about to remove parental consent for this child. They will no longer have permissions to access certain Microsoft sites and services."
   
4. Click on "Remove consent" button
   
5. Go back to Microsoft Family Safety home page. Wait for few seconds for settings to reflect. The child account will disappear from family home page.
   

 

Child Account Get Greyed Out

Thanks for the suggestion, but I did the following instead.

I have another laptop, 2 weeks old, with Windows 10 Home on it.

On that one, I tried the same steps with the child account, and got the exact same results.