How to block or schedule games on your kid's PC
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Blocking every game forever rarely works — kids find workarounds and resentment grows. A schedule works better: games at agreed hours, school and sleep protected.
🎬 Video: Limits and sleep mode
Three tools that cover most families
- Limit or pause a specific game. In child-time, “⏸ App” gives a chosen game a daily minute limit (say, 1 hour a day), allows it only at certain hours (for example, 6–8 pm), or pauses it always. If it's opened past the limit or at the wrong time, its window is minimized.
- Daily screen time limit. One budget for everything on the computer — when it runs out, the screen shows a time's-up message.
- Sleep mode. Hours when the computer can't be used at all, so nights stay for sleep.
Set it up
- Give your child their own standard Windows account (Settings → Accounts → Other users).
- Install child-time under that account and sign in with your parent account.
- Once a game has been opened, pick it in Kids & limits → “⏸ App” and choose when it's allowed.
- Add a daily limit and sleep mode if you want.
Keep it fair
child-time is open by design: your child sees the timer, the rules and your messages, and can ask for more time or earn it with tasks. It manages apps, not websites, and doesn't read chats or what's on screen.
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