Windows 7 Parental Controls - How to Disable?

Question

On Windows 7, I'm getting an error saying that "Parental Controls can be bypassed because there is an administrator account without a password." The issue is that there are no other accounts. I had tried working with a test account called Child to experiment with parental controls.

How do I now just completely disable parental controls so that I don't get this warning message at startup?

The odd thing is that the error message states that "As long as an administrator account has no password, any user can bypass or turn off parentals controls." Which is exactly what I want to do. I just don't know how to navigate to the right control panel to turn off parental controls.

Thanks,

Adam

Solution

Does your primary account have a password? If not, create one. Then in the control panel turn off parental controls.

Comments

[Adam Kane]

I'd rather not have a password on my primary account. While there could be argument that this is not wise, must I have one in order to turn off parental controls?

[Daniel A. White]

Potentially yes.

[Joel Coehoorn]

@Adam you can always remove your password later.