Windows 10: Windows 11. I'm 71 years old. Only user on this laptop. Cannot disable the Parental...

2022-11-27 New Dell G15 5511 Laptop windows 11. Trial McAfee A.V. was installed. Eventually I removed it and configured Microsoft Defender or Security. Did not touch, add or change anything about Parental Controls. This is the short version of the events. Now every time I want to delete or move a file to another folder or do some task, parental control asks if I'm sure or that I can't do that, etc. Eventually I find out i have to go in the Parental Control and remove the child/childen. But there are NO children listed... just me the 71 year old. So no kid to remove and... NO DEAL... ST

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Windows 11 Now available on 2 Year Old Laptop.

This has come as a surprise.

My 2 year old HP Envy Core I7 8th Gen, laptop now shows that Windows 11 is available to install. (I don't want to install just now at 7-00 AM, as am looking for daily news etc).

I declined the offer to update, for now.

Will the install (Windows11) notification appear again?
Will the install instructions detail the precise steps for backup/install/revert to Windows10, etc?

 

Parental Settings

Hi
Anngelique,

To better assist you with your concern, please follow troubleshooting steps on how to remove parental controls below:

• Go to the Control Panel from the Windows Start menu.
• Click User Accounts.
• Click Parental Controls.
• Click on your account photo.
• Choose Parental control off.

The steps provided works only if the user account has full access to the PC.

Let us know if you have other concerns.

 

Must be at least 12 years old.

Not sure if the above solution solved it, but I have a related issue.

I'm a parent, and I am wondering if there is a way to get around this 12-year-old limitation via parental controls, etc..

The reason is that there are instances where this age limit doesn't make sense. For a example, Microsoft strangely says that you have to be at least 12 years old to use Microsoft Word Mobile.

I am a parent of 2 children, one 13 and the other 11. On my home desktop (Windows 10 Pro), MS Store allows my 13 year-old to download and install Word Mobile, but it does not allow my 11 year old. (I guess MS knows the age of my kids because they are signing
into their accounts with their own Microsoft login, which has their personal profile).

But it seems ridiculous that MS is saying you have to be 12 to use Word. That means until they are in 7th grade, they can't use Word?? But schools give out homework to be done in Word. MS touts itself as the educational champions (per their advertisements
that feature elementary / junior high school teachers). But then they won't allow 6th graders to use word, because they are under 12?

I understand that because of some research functions built into Word, maybe it would be a good idea to limit the age of children using Word. But as a parent, I've set up parental controls and net filters.. and now I want to install Word into my 11-year-old's
account.

But there doesn't seem to be a workaround.

Is there some way that I can install Word and Powerpoint onto my child's account? (Powerpoint has the same problem, by the way).