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I've got Family Safety up and running nicely on a Windows 8 Surface, with two parent accounts and two child accounts.
When one of the child accounts reaches its time limit, the user can "Ask a parent for more time". However, the next dialog doesn't allow the parents to choose which parent account to use - it always comes up with my account, and my wife can't log in to authorise.
How can I allow the her account to allow more time/authorise sites etc?
She can use the same Live login on our Windows 7 computers to control these settings, and is listed as a Parent on the Family Safety website.
Zhaph - Ben Duguid
Posted 2012-11-15T22:25:12.243
Reputation: 920
Why don't you have a single account you both know the information too for only this purpose? Windows RT isn't Windows 7 lots changed in Family Safety with Windows 8/Windows RT – Ramhound – 2012-11-15T22:53:19.000
I imagine there is a method... creating more accounts is just a workaround. – cutrightjm – 2012-11-16T00:38:40.220
2are you both administrators ? also as far as i can tell, it will use whichever account you used to set up the family safety for that user. – Taylor Gibb – 2012-11-16T05:53:21.533
TaylorGibb - That seems to be the Key - only my account is an administrator. @Ramhound - I could indeed make a single account that we both know the password too for this, but then that would clutter up my start screen/logins dropdown, etc. There's definitely an argument to creating a single "admin" user account and demoting mine down to a standard user, but there's also the issue of "yet another password to remember" that I don't like or want. – Zhaph - Ben Duguid – 2012-11-16T11:41:13.413
2A single account would defeat the point of it all. – Jerry Nixon – 2012-12-07T20:53:18.807