Software Watcher

What is it?
Access Boss: a security application letting you to manage who, how, and when a user can access your computer. It is armed with features which not only give more flexible usage and broader capability, but also easy to operate for everyone including parents that simply want to limit their children's computer hours.

What it can do for you?
An owner can set time limits both for certain user or for the computer itself so the setting is applied to all users with no exception.

It is also possible for you to configure when a user is able to access a computer. In other words, a user is only able to access the computer at a certain specified time.

A feature that is probably suitable for parents to control their children's computer activity is that this application lets you to determine how long a user can use a computer. What makes this feature even greater is its capability to set different time limit for each day. For example, two hours for Monday and 4 hours for Sunday.

To prevent a user from creating a new account in purpose to have unlimited time access, you can make a list of users permitted to use the computer. By utilizing this feature, no one is able to access the computer other than those already included on the list.

Other interesting offerings are that you can set a user account expiration date, check the usage statistic for each user, apply the time limit configuration accross a network, and all the settings can be configured and applied remotely.

Publisher: FSPro Labs
System Requirement: Windows 2003/XP/Vista
License: 30 days trial, $29.95 to buy.