Changing computer's date and time is a very easy thing on all kinds of Windows operating system, which include Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, any computer user just needs following these steps to do it: 1. click on the Date and Time in the notification area, this is commonly the bottom right-hand corner of the Windows desktop. 2. In the Window that appears click 'Change date and time settings'. It is very easy, but how to prevent users from changing time and date? Can we set a password to prevent users who don't know the password from changing the computer time and date? 

 

Having googled, there is a native ability to prevent users from changing time, in this way, you need to create a standard, non-administrator account and to keep any other computer user logged in by the non-administrator account, and then when they try to change the time Windows 7 will pop up a box asking if the main account would allow this. However this way can not prevent the user from creating an administrative account and changing time. So we need a better way to prevent users from changing time.

 

Set a password to prevent users from changing time

 

There is a better way to prevent users from changing time, you can set a password and only the computer user who know the password can change the computer time. In this way, you need

a professional tools to prevent users from changing time, 'Isurveillancesoft Shutdown Timer' is an excellent professional shutdown timer, and the software has a powerful ability which can block any computer user to change computer time by any way.

 

After you install the software into computer, it will block any action to change computer time automatically. However, you can disable this ability by the following steps:

 

1. Open the operation UI of Isurveillancesoft Shutdown Timer software. It is necessary to open the UI that the computer user input a password which you set when you install it into your computer.

 

2. Click 'Setting' tag to open 'Setting' page.

 

3. Tick 'Forbid Setting System Time' check box to lock the time setting.

 

4. Untick 'Forbid Setting System Time' check box to unlock the time setting.

 

Ok, now, please follow steps listed below to install the software into your computer, and set a password for it to prevent users from changing time.

 

1. Download it from 'here'.

 

2. Run the downloaded file, and follow it's installation wizard to install it.