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Setup:Applications

Restrict access to applications on your computer or network, including:

  • Games.
  • Applications that only you should use, such as your personal finance manager.
  • Modem dialers.


How to restrict an application

Cyber Patrol blocks the applications you specify in the Restricted Applications list.

To restrict an application:

  1. Click Add.
  2. Use the selection screen to browse for the application you want to restrict, and select the application's executable file. When you return to Setup: Applications , you see the application listed under Restricted Applications.
  3. Click Save.


Application restriction settings

Applications on the list are restricted according to the following settings:

Time:

Restricted applications can be used only during the specified hours, and only for the specified amount of time.

Access:

Blocked - Access is blocked to all restricted applications at all times. Only Deputy has access to these applications.

Filtered - Access to all restricted applications is filtered according to Time.

Allowed - Access is allowed to all applications, including restricted applications, at all times.


Examples of application filtering

  1. If you list a game named Puzzle.exe as one of the Restricted Applications, and you set applications to be blocked in Setup:Access, then you cannot run Puzzle.exe unless you use Deputy.

  2. If you list Puzzle.exe as one of the Restricted Applications, and you set applications to be filtered in Setup:Access, you must specify time periods in Setup:Time in which applications are allowed or blocked. For example, set the hours of operation so that access is allowed only between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Then Puzzle can be run only on weekdays between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.


How to set up application time and access filtering

For instructions on setting up time filtering for applications:

For instructions on setting up access for applications:


How to remove an application from the restricted list

To remove an application from the Restricted Applications list:

  1. In Setup:Applications, select the application that you want to remove in the Restricted Applications list.
  2. Click Delete.


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