Articles about Online Gambling
No Access to Gambling Sites
No Access to Gambling Sites
There are numerous reasons why gambling websites need to be blocked. You
may be attempting to help somebody to get rid of gambling obsession or
may be ensuring that such gambling sites are not easily accessible by
your children, whatever may be your intention of stopping access to
these online gaming sites. If somebody is accessing the net through
Internet Explorer then there is no need for purchasing special software
to block such online games. All that needs to be done is alter the
details set in the working of the Internet Explorer.
Directions
1
You can start this process by first opening your desktop and accessing
the Internet Explorer by doubling clicking on the icon displayed on the
desktop. Per chance if there is no icon or short cut to the program then
you may click on the “Start” menu situated down below on the left of
your desktop. Place your scrolling arrow on the “All Programs” which
will display the program “Internet Explorer”. To gain access to this
program click on “Internet Explorer”
2
Once the Internet Explorer program opens, then there will be displayed
“Tools” on the top of your computer screen. When you click on
“Tools” there will appear a drop down list. The last of the items
listed will “Internet Options”. When you click on “Internet
Options” the window will open.
3
In this new window various tabs will be displayed. Locate the tab
entitled “Content” which will be the fourth one from left of the
screen. Just click on it and another window can be accessed.
4
In this new window locate the icon titles “Content Advisor”. You
will see a button saying “Enable”. When you click on this button a
new window will open.
5
In the window, there will be displayed a tab saying “Ratings”. You
may activate this tab by clicking on it if it has not already been
activated. Then check the detail listing under “Ratings” and choose
the words “Depiction of Gambling” and click on them.
6
There will appear a bar which will allow you to control the level of
activity which the users can have access to. This bar will have values
which with ranges from “None” to “Unrestricted”. If you want the
users not to be able to access any of the online gambling sites than
adjust the level of access to “None” by sliding the bar on the
slider to the extreme left. This will adjust the settings so that the
user does not have access to any of the online gambling sites and thus
will be prevented from being tempted to gamble online.