As the title says - I am wanting to limit the time my children spend on the computer. Can anyone recommend any good sites for a computer timer. thanx

honestly? the clock... and the power switch....

there are programs out there, but they can be quite expensive...

Ez Off is a decent and cheaper one..
http://ez-off.it-works-corporation.qarchive.org/

You can do this with a command line on NT based systems (XP, win2k, Vista, etc).

Log in as an administrator (you probably already are administrator). Go to run, type "cmd" and use the following command:

net user accountname /times:M-F,8am-8pm; Sa,8am-5pm;Su,8am-1pm

Change "accountname" to the user account they log in as (obviously you don't want to restrict your own account, so if they use your account create them a new one). The times and days format can be changed too, check out this page:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/8935e4a8-3624-46a1-b47a-c7735802b4561033.mspx?mfr=true

If you get into a mess and want to unrestrict the times just use "net user accountname /times:all"

You might also want to remove them from the administrator group, otherwise they can unrestrict it themselves

Edit: found a better page relating to XP: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/net_user.mspx?mfr=true

Hi
Thanks for the tips. Will definitely look into your suggestions.