Computer History...?

Question

I have a feeling my teen daughter has been deleting the history on our family computer.
We have parental controls,and they catch some of her actions (myspace) but not all.Is there any sort of cookie-enabler thing I could do too view her online activity?

Answer 1

Also look in Control panel, Internet Options, Settings, then click View files. Unless she deletes these too.

Answer 2

Your issue is parenting, not the computer! If you have failed to instill honesty and respect into your daughters character/values, you are not going to correct that mistake with man made things.

From age three or so, your parenting should have been that when you or your wife gave instructions, you child lived by them
whiteout question! If she feels that she has to hide her actions from you, then you FAILED! If you cannot ask her to her face without a confrontation, then you have FAILED as a parent.

As for the computer, today, if you feel that there are negative issues, take it away, do not allow her to use it.

To insure control, go to control panel, user accounts. Select her account and change it from administrative to user. Do that for all accounts on the machine.

Create a new account for yourself and leave it as administrator, to, give yourself a password.

Start your Internet, click on TOOLS, Internet Options, scroll down to Empty Temp Inter Files, uncheck it, save.

Answer 3

From Internet Explorer:

click Tools
cl Internet Options
Carefully check out the "Security," "Privacy," and "Content" tabs.

On the Content tab, if you click "enable," "General," you will see where you can set limits to sites she can see and set a password to prevent access to others.

Rather than "spying" on her, maybe you can try having a serious talk. However, I'm sure you know that what she can't view at home, she will get to somewhere else if she is of a mind to. Unfortunately, hard as we try, we can't protect our kids as much as we would like.

Answer 4

You should find a technical way to monitor what your daughter is doing, like cybernanny.

However, it may be more important to build a better relationship with your daughter so she is not doing things she wants to hide from you. Otherwise, she may just find another channel that you can't monitor (computer at a friend's house, computer at the library, computer at school).

I know the relationship side is tough. Good luck.

Answer 5

Make password protection.If Parental control is installed kids cannot go on line like myspace.com

Answer 6

smart kid......if deleted cookies. u can't go back and see what happen.......but only history is deleted.....u could view temp files....where u could find lil bit info.......u could go to that folder through

C:\Documents and Settings/owner\Local Settings\Temp

above where u see owner ......i think u might have some different name

Answer 7

You could use a program like cybernanny, it will email you statistics too with how long they have been online etc.. very nice :)