Restrict child times using Net USER CMD

[athlon70]

Hi,

trying to restrict my Kids' access times on Windows 10 without the whole family thing.

using CMD Net user:

I want to restrict him to these times:

Monday: 2pm -7pm
Tues -Thurs: 3Pm-7pm
Friday: 3pm-1am Sat Morning
Saturday: 7am-1pm Sun morning
Sunday: 7am-6pm

 

So i did this:

M,14:00-19:00;T-Th,15:00-19:00;F,15:00-24:00;S,00:00-01:00;S,15:00-24:00;Su,00:00-01:00;Su,07:00-18:00

 

Net user said it was accepted etc. etc. 

 

So i get home today and it's 7:30pm and he is on the computer and he said "It didn't turn off at 7"

 

Obviously i'm doing something wrong. Any help.

 

Thanks

[Biohazard777]

You did everything right, but your premise is false (what you expected net user command to do).
Setting those time restrictions using net command will only prevent users from logging in outside the times you allowed, it will not force log out a user when the logon hours expire.

You can turn on the force log off via group policy, but if you are on Win10 Home instead of Pro you don't have group policy editor (you can side load it, but that is another topic). And even then if the account is not local / domain but a Microsoft account chances are it won't work.

Over the years I've really grown to hate Windows, it just such a mess of an OS. You are better off finding a 3rd party program for this than to waste time on something that should be straight forward to setup in the OS even for a novice.