How to Bypass Microsoft Family Features (2 Effective Methods)

Bypassing family features in Microsoft Windows 10 requires a bit of time. There are two methods in order to get rid of the features so that the computer can be used freely, without the threat of weakened search engines. One way of bypassing the features is to rename the exe. File. The other way is to disable the features of admin.

How to Bypass Microsoft Family Features

Significance and Importance of Web Filtering

Web filtering is restricted to Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers (excluding Windows 10 Mobile. Turning on web filtering for a child blocks access to adult websites and enables safe search, which filters out adult content in search results from Bing, Google, Yahoo, and other popular search engines. 

When Web Filtering is enabled, the safe search setting blurs out adult content in images. The web filter provides blacklisting and whitelisting of websites by a parent account. Web Filtering blocks private browsing in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

How Do I Bypass Microsoft Family Features Easily

Microsoft family features (includes family safety features formerly known as Microsoft Family Safety, formerly Parental Controls in Windows 7 and Vista) is a free set of features available on Windows 10 PC and Mobile that is bundled with the Windows 10, Home edition operating system. 

A parent can manage settings for a child if both of their Microsoft Accounts are in the same family. When parents turn on settings for their child, these settings are applied to every device that the child logs into with that Microsoft Account. The family features can be automatically implemented right after the personal computer is opened for the first time for use purposes. 

This brings severe restrictions during the use of the computer, especially while browsing through the internet as several searches are hidden due to having inappropriate ads clung to them. An adult regular user can easily avoid these sorts of ads and move along with his work. Hence, it is necessary for the person to turn off the family features for the free use of the internet.

Method 1: Renaming the Exe. File

  1. Go to the C Drive situated at the “This PC” icon.
  2. Users>Agent>App-Data>Local>itch>app>25.4.1
  3. Click on the itch app 
  4. Rename the app into any name other than the itch
  5. Run the app as an administrator

This will help to bypass the family feature within no time. But this method doesn’t always work. The method seems really short. Also, it seems that it has quite a number of loopholes in the way of executing the stoppage of family features being run in the personal computer. Hence, this method is not recommended these days, more specifically for windows 10.

Method 2: Disabling the Admin Feature 

  1. Search for the services app from the search icon situated beside the start icon
  2. Run the app as an administrator
  3. Scroll down the bar and find parental controls, the control is being run in the local operating system
  4. Click on the parental controls once, then click the right button on the mouse
  5. Click on the properties from the drop-down menu bar
  6. Set the startup type as disabled
  7. Click on the “Apply” button
  8. Close the tab
  9. Search for Task Manager
  10.  Run that as administrator
  11.  Scroll down toward the Family Safety monitor
  12.  Check if it does have any portion in the CPU
  13.  If yes, then redo the process from the top 
  14.  If no, then end the task

This is a method that always seems to work for such purposes.

Conclusion

Frequent popping up of Microsoft Family Features happens when the user has signed himself out from the features. Also when the system assumes that the user is a child as he is using a child’s account without being informed about it in the first place. 

Generally, the occurrence of such disturbance is nothing but due to the presence of a bug situated in the computer. As the presence of malware cannot be known due to it being posed as an exe. File, hence, for random popping up of family features, the family feature file should be checked before being run in order to be ceased to being existed.

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