Introduction

Let’s say you don’t want little Johnny playing specific games or games with a Mature ESRB rating. This can be easily controlled with Windows Vista Game Controls.

Turn Game Controls On

Note: Before you can turn on Game Controls for a user account that account needs to have Parental Controls turned on. Learn how to turn on Parental Controls with the Turn Parental Controls on in Windows Vista ^[1] guide.

1. Open the Start Menu and click Control Panel.
2. Open Parental Controls.
3. Select the user you want to turn Game Controls on.
4. Click Games.

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5. You can allow or disallow this user to play games under Can Little Johnny play games.

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Allow or disallow games by their ESRB rating

1. Click Set game ratings.

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2. Select whether you want to allow games with no ESRB rating to be allowed.
3. Next select the highest rating little Johnny can play under Which ratings are ok for…

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Block or allow specific games

1. Click Block or allow specific games.

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2. Find the game you want to always allow or block in the list and check off whether to allow or block it.

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