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One of the talked about feature of Windows Vista was the parental control. In Vista the parental control is in a matured form and is available with lots of functions which were not manageable centrally on any previous versions of Windows.

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One feature is the time login time limit. Parents can actually set the time their children can access the computer for each day and this is shown in a grid view for convenience.

But what if you don’t have Vista. You got XP at home What do you do ?Well worry not this time limited login is actually available in Windows XP too, but in a more crude form. The option is provided to you through the Command Prompt by net user command. The net services command is one among the most powerful and useful commands available in Windows XP command prompt. It allows an Administrator to do and automate many system administrative task. Let me come to the point :

An example :

net user Others ajith /times:Su-Sa,3-15;Sa,9-12;
will restrict a user with account name Others and password ajith from logging in at times other than the specified ones.

To clear all restrictions just type :net user [account name] [Password/*] /times:all

Just Play with the command and you can find other uses of net service commands. Now what will happen if the user tries to login during the hours other than specified in the command. Well the user will be given a wrong password error. When I tried to run a program as the restricted user after loging in to Administrator the following error message was shown :

This is a brief summary about the net user commands on Microsoft Knowledge Base :

Net user

Adds or modifies user accounts or displays user account information.

Syntax

net user [UserName [Password | *] [options]] [/domain]

net user [UserName {Password | *} /add [options] [/domain]]

net user [UserName [/delete] [/domain]]

Parameters

UserName : Specifies the name of the user account to add, delete, modify, or view. The name of the user account can have as many as 20 characters.

Password : Assigns or changes a password for the user’s account. Type an asterisk (*) to produce a prompt for the password. The password is not displayed when you type it at the password prompt.

/domain : Performs the operation on the domain controller in the computer’s primary domain.

options : Specifies a command-line option. The following table lists valid command-line options that you can use.

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