My Child by-pass his account by switching to local account.

Hi Joshy,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.  

I understand the inconvenience that you are facing on Windows 10, we will certainly help you with this issue.  

I would like to inform you that you can create local account only with an administrator account, so your child’s account may be an administrator account.

I would suggest you to change your child’s account to the standard account and check if it helps.

To change the account type please follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows + X key.

2. From the jump menu select Control Panel.

3. On the Top right click on view by and select large icons.

4. Go to User Accounts.

5. Click on change your account type (which you prefer/want to make standard).

6. Select standard and hit Change Account Type.

7. Follow the on screen instructions.

I also suggest you to refer to the article below for better clarification.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/set-up-family-after-upgrade

Hope it helps, reply to us with the status of your issue. We will be happy to assist you.

Thank you.

Juzar,

Sorry to say, but this has been nowhere close to being helpful.

Child account is already standard, not an administrator account. (I even changed it like you advised)

In order to by-pass his windows account (which he signs in with his email),

he goes to:

1. Start

2. Settings

3. Accounts

4. Your Account

5. "Sign in with a local account instead".

From that point on, he is able to start a totally new local account. 

As he gets into his new local account, he is now able to view all the websites that I had blocked for his windows account (which is not local. which he signs in through his email.)

Family safety is by-passed totally! 

This is a very very bad bug I think! I am very frustrated with Windows 10!

Please see the image below!

Thanks

Josh

We have a child account linked to my child's email.

We have family safety configurations for this account. If my child is kept at this account, everything is safe and good. However:

My child is able to start a new local account when he is in his account. By this local account, he by-passes the family safety and able visit the sites we had blocked for him.

His child account is not an administrator account. It is a standard account.

In order to by-pass his windows account (which he signs in with his email),

he goes to:

1. Start

2. Settings

3. Accounts

4. Your Account

5. "Sign in with a local account instead".

From that point on, he is able to start a totally new local account. 

As he gets into his new local account, he is now able to view all the websites that I had blocked for his windows account (which is not local. which he signs in through his email.)

Family safety is by-passed totally! 

Please see the image attached.

Thanks

Threads merged same topic.  Please dont start multiple threads on the same topic.

You can disable local accounts in registry (if you have win 10 pro)

You can tell him that if he creates a local account you will lock him out of the computer.

There are at least 5 ways to bypass family safety.  It is not foolproof and not meant to be

1. I do not have win 10 pro. 

2. I should not have to "tell my kid" to stop doing something that they want to. If my word would apply, I would not need to set family safety in the first place!

3. Family safety being not foolproof makes it so useless, it is cross-purpose. It should have been meant to be foolproof!

I need microsoft to find a way to stop children start new accounts and bypass family safety when they start operating in their child account! In this environment family safety makes absolutely no sense. I f my kid can bypass it, why would I need family safety in the first place. How can microsoft even really rationalize this???

Joshy!

THIS IS THE SAME EXACT ISSUE I AM HAVING.

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE AT MICROSFT HAS BEEN ABLE TO ASSIST ME ON THIS.

THIS IS NUTS AND MAKES ME WANT TO THROW ON THE WINDOWS 10 LAPTOPS I PURCHASED FOR MY CHILDREN--OFF LIMITS UNTIL RESOLVED.

**** MICROSOFT?!?!??!?!?!?!?

(interesting how this thread had died...no one has the solution?????)

Yes, this is a major flaw. PLEASE HELP.

So many things wrong with new family safety setup

UPDATE:

To all of you suffering with Windows 10 Family safety, I have one piece of advice for you:

DO A CLEAN INSTALL BACK TO WINDOWS 8.1!!!

Spare yourselves the weeks of **** I went through trying to get it to work properly. 

Setting aside all the dumb changes they made in Win 10, it simply doesn't work!

And worst of all, any child can easily bypass the safety settings in 3 seconds flat by simply switching to a local account.

Believe me, spare yourselves. As big a pain as it is to do a clean install you will be happier. My PC finally works again as it should. If you're still within 30 days of the upgrade you can try to revert back but that didn't work for me, the files were already corrupted and anyway the new setup is abysmal

I'm having the exact same issue. Joshy Jonjon, thank you for elaborating.

Microsoft, please try to answer the question instead of pasting canned answers. This is a big issue.

Thank you.