family safety onlne acct

cjammit

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Hi, set up Family safety on one child's Win7 pc OK, as downloaded live essentials, associated it with my hotmail acct and get reports there. Now trying on another child's win8 pro PC. I only have local PC admin acct setup, but when trying to setup family safety on child's acct, it let's me yes, but when i click on the reports, etc it says I can manage on the family safety website. OK with that, except it won't let me got to the site unless i 'switch' my local admin acct to a email address account (it seems), which is what i don't really want to do. Why can't i just associate my PC with my email address without having to mess the PC login accts!?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win8 pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
hi, yes thanks, but like the other win7 pc i get them emailed to me, don't want to have to remember to login to win8 PC just to look at reports. This shouldn't be so difficult! I heard Win8 family safety was new and improved. If i have to login to PC to view reports, then i dare say not.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win8 pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
it says I can manage on the family safety website. OK with that, except it won't let me got to the site unless i 'switch' my local admin acct to a email address account (it seems), which is what i don't really want to do. Why can't i just associate my PC with my email address without having to mess the PC login accts!?
You could set up another Admin-level account on the PC that was a Microsoft Account, in addition to the local account, and manage it via that? I think Microsoft are pushing all "connected" features to be done via Microsoft accounts.

Incidentally I set this up on my own PC a while ago - both the Admin and the User are me, but I was curious to see how it works. However I have Kaspersky Internet Security on the PC, so the only website it ever "sees" is a Kaspersky address. I suspect the moral of the story is that Family Safety doesn't work well with 3rd party security products.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1, 10
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