GardionControl apps are mobile
Family Link, Kids360 and most others run only on phones and tablets, so the computer is left unattended.
Windows 10 and 11
The computer in the kids’ room stays a blind spot
Parental controls for a PC: set a time limit, close games and sites on a schedule, and the known workarounds stay shut. Works on Windows 10 and 11, set up from your phone.
Set it up on the PC14 days free, no card needed. Windows and Android.
How to install Gardion on Windows and handle SmartScreen
What has to hold against a teenager
Setting a limit is easy. Holding it while a teenager looks for a way around is the hard part.
- 01
The child switches on a VPN
Gardion blocks more than 40 VPN apps at the system level and adds new ones with updates.
- 02
The child winds the clock back
The limit checks time against a server, so changing the clock does nothing — and the parent gets an alert.
- 03
The child boots into Safe Mode
Gardion notices a Safe Mode boot and tells the parent right away.
- 04
The child deletes the agent
The agent reinstalls itself from the server. The only way to remove it for good is the password in the parent dashboard.
The honest limit
Only a standard account fully closes the computer
Gardion holds the known workarounds: VPN, clock changes, Safe Mode, removing the agent. That raises the bar from “off in a minute” to “slow and hard”.
But if the child is an administrator of the computer, admin rights let them turn off any program, including ours. This is how Windows itself works, and it is not a Gardion weakness: while the child is an admin, no parental-control app can close the computer completely.
One step closes the rest: give the child a standard account, without admin rights, and keep the administrator account for yourself. Then they cannot turn the protection off at all.
The cost is honest: with a standard account the child cannot install a program or a game, or change system settings, without your password. You will enter it now and then, and in return the computer is fully closed.
Why the computer slips out of control
Games are installed locally
Steam, Minecraft and shooters launch straight from disk — past the browser and any website filter.
At night the parent doesn’t see it
A phone in a child’s hands is easy to notice; a monitor glowing behind a closed door is not.
what gardion does
What Gardion does on Windows
Gardion works at the Windows level itself — no message reading, no screen recording.
A daily limit and a schedule
Set different time for weekdays and weekends, close school hours and the time after bedtime. When the time runs out, Gardion locks the computer.
A limit on one game
Say, forty minutes of Roblox a day; homework and drawing don’t spend that limit.
A break with a warm-up
Every half hour Gardion locks the screen and shows an exercise — in strict mode the screen stays locked until the child does it.
One account for the PC and phone
A parent sets up Windows and Android from one dashboard, on their own phone.
Questions parents ask
My child is an administrator on their PC. Will anything help?
They’ll undo the built-in tools. You need anti-bypass protection — a Safe Mode block and self-repair after removal. Or make their account a standard one, without admin rights.
Does it need the internet to work?
Limits and blocks work offline because they live on the device itself. A connection is needed to change rules from your phone and get alerts.
Does Gardion read messages or record the screen?
No. Gardion manages time and access only. We don’t read messages and don’t record the screen.
For the games kids lose hours to, see Roblox and Minecraft. How kids get around controls is in the breakdown on bypassing.
Cover the computer in three minutes
14 days free, no card needed. Windows and Android.