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How to limit Discord time on a Windows PC

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Discord is where gaming friends hang out — and where “five more minutes” turns into midnight voice calls. On a Windows PC you can decide when the Discord app is allowed, without reading a single message.

🎬 Video: Limits and sleep mode

A daily limit, hours when the computer rests, and allowed hours for a specific game.

Step 1. Install child-time and open Discord once

Install child-time on your child's computer (5-minute guide). The app list in the dashboard shows what your child has actually opened, so Discord appears after it has been used once with child-time installed.

Step 2. Choose when Discord is allowed

  1. In the parent dashboard open Kids & limits and tap “⏸ App” next to your child.
  2. Pick Discord from the list.
  3. Choose “Only outside allowed hours” (for example Discord only from 4 pm to 9 pm), “After a daily minute limit”, or “Always” to pause it for a while.

When your child opens Discord outside the rule, it's minimized or closed and they see a short message explaining why. Everything else on the computer keeps working.

Step 3. Add a bedtime for the whole computer

Turn on “😴 Sleep mode” — for example from 10 pm to 7 am on school nights. At bedtime the computer shows a full-screen “time's up” message, with warnings at 15, 5 and 1 minute before, so your child can say goodbye to friends instead of vanishing mid-sentence.

Honest limits: the rule acts on the Discord app window. A voice call that keeps running in the background with the window hidden isn't cut off, and Discord opened in a web browser counts as the browser, not as Discord (you can set a rule on the browser as a whole). child-time doesn't read messages or filter servers — for those settings use Discord's own Family Center and privacy options.

Talk about it first

Agree on the hours together and write them down — kids accept limits they helped set. A family screen time agreement is a good place to start.

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