Family Options in Windows 10

The ‘Family Options‘ protection area in Windows 10, is one of the seven areas that protect your device and let you specify how you want your device protected in Windows Defender Security Center. The seven areas include:

Family optionsVirus & threat protectionAccount protectionFirewall & network protectionApp & browser controlDevice securityDevice performance & health.

The Family options feature in Windows Security provides you with easy access to tools to manage your children’s digital life. Use Family options to help keep your children’s devices clean and up to date with the latest version of Windows 10 and to protect your kids when they’re online. It has two sections that allow you to: To adjust your family settings or to set up a family, select View family settings to go to the Family website on account.microsoft.com. You may be asked to sign in with your Microsoft account. The Family options area can be hidden from users. This can be useful if, as an admin, you don’t want them to see or have access to this area. If you choose to hide the Account protection area, it will no longer appear on the home page of the Windows Security Center, and its icon will not be shown on the navigation bar on the side of the app.

Show or Hide Family options in Windows Security via GPEDIT

Hide Family options in Windows Security via Registry

Show Family options in Windows Security via Registry

You can click here to download the zipped Registry files from our servers.