Kids user accounts and family settings

Brink · 04 Feb 2016

Mynmisklly said:

I created an account specifically to add my complaints about Windows 10 on this forum. I have 4 children ages 8, 6, 4, and 2. They all love playing PBS kids and watching Netflix on our touch screen. I simply want to limit their screen time, and I think it should be a very simple process.

In addition to all the nonsense described in the previous posts, they now require a credit card. They "have" to charge me $0.50 to create the email account for my very young children, whom I don't even want to have email accounts.

Completely. Ridiculous.

Life is hard enough, why does this have to be so complicated.

Hello Mynmisklly, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

A Microsoft account is 100% free, and does not require a credit card.

Adding their accounts as a child in your Microsoft Family is also free.

Ssjssj · 30 Mar 2016

I also was charged the $.50 each for 2 of my kids to set up Microsoft accounts at some point for "verification purpose". It is true.

Ben12345 · 20 May 2016

Brink said:

Hello Mynmisklly, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

A Microsoft account is 100% free, and does not require a credit card.

Adding their accounts as a child in your Microsoft Family is also free.

I think you have completely missed the point of the OP.

Windows 8 and 8.1 used to allow a local account to be a child account. It was painful enough using internet explorer to manage family settings. But it worked.
Now a child account has to be linked to a Microsoft account. Ok, so both my kids have a Microsoft outlook.com account. However they will not allow simple password sign-in. Try telling my 5 year old her password is not 'cat' but now sdfsd$72@us2

she won't be able to just jump on, switch user from her brothers account and load her minecraft, something they both did seamlessly in Windows 8/8.1, again Microsoft just on another planet with this family stuff. Do any of the people there making these decisions have kids?

I will be downgrading to 8.1 until I see a fix for this.

Brink · 20 May 2016

Ben12345 said:

I think you have completely missed the point of the OP.

Hello Ben, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

I was referring and replying to this part below. I've never been charged to setup and verify a Microsoft account.

In addition to all the nonsense described in the previous posts, they now require a credit card. They "have" to charge me $0.50 to create the email account for my very young children, whom I don't even want to have email accounts.

jayabalard · 12 Jul 2016

Brink said:

Hello Ben, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

I was referring and replying to this part below. I've never been charged to setup and verify a Microsoft account.

then I suspect that you haven't set up a child account.

They charge 50 cents per child account that you set up. You have to have a credit card.

You can always opt to lie when you create you 6 year olds email address so that they are 18 years old and not get any of the child controls.

Brink · 12 Jul 2016

jayabalard said:

then I suspect that you haven't set up a child account.

They charge 50 cents per child account that you set up. You have to have a credit card.

You can always opt to lie when you create you 6 year olds email address so that they are 18 years old and not get any of the child controls.

I did set one up to be able to create the tutorial, and I wasn't charged anything or required to have a credit card.

Exactly where or at what step is this happening for you?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

jayabalard · 12 Jul 2016

Brink said:

I did set one up to be able to create the tutorial, and I wasn't charged anything or required to have a credit card.

Exactly where or at what step is this happening for you?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Step 6/7 when the child goes to log in to their account to accept the invite.

Brink · 12 Jul 2016

I did use an older MSA of mine to invite as a child though.

jayabalard · 12 Jul 2016

Brink said:

I did use an older MSA of mine to invite as a child though.

I used an existing one that I think I created for a Skype call in 2012 and hadn't used since to do the Inviting. The child accounts are All new with their existing email addresses.

As soon as I go to log in with the child account, it says to log in with an adult account. When I log in with my account, it goes to validate that my account is actually an adult, and asks for 50 cents on a credit card.
I'm on my phone at a concert or I'd like to some screenshots

Brink · 12 Jul 2016

In that case it sounds like it may just being used as a form of verification for the MSA (Microsoft account) if you're not doing so by getting a code via text message, email, or phone call.

Is the 50 cents charge reversed back to the card later?

Kids user accounts and family settings

Microsoft on another planet with this....