How Do I Block Sites On A Laptop?

Go to Internet Explorer on your computer. Click on 'Tools' from the toolbar in the upper right-hand corner of the Web browser. Select the 'Content' tab. Find the 'Content Advisor' heading and click on the button labeled 'Enable.' Choose a category from the list. This list will present you with a variety of content categories that you may not want your children to see, such as sites depicting drug or alcohol use, violent images, nudity or bad language. Click on the category you want to control. Then use your mouse to move the slider below the list to set the degree of restriction you want on that type of site. the degree of restriction can range from no restriction at all to the complete blocking of those sorts of sites. Click 'OK.' Set a password. You will be prompted to do so at this point. Setting a password will ensure that no one but you is able to adjust the parental control settings.

The most effective way is to use some parental control app like sentrypc: http://www.monitoring-softwares.com/ It can help block and filter sites with keywords.

If you use Internet Explorer, you can use its Content Advisor feature to block or allow websites. But it might be better to block ALL websites EXCEPT for the sites you specify. To do that, use Content Advisor with a "no-access" rating script - This is a one-time procedure described on various websites. There are slightly different versions out there, but this should work: http://www.iishacks.com/2009/03/12/using-the-ie-content-advisor-to-block-all-internet-access/ This method has several advantages: - It is the opposite of most parental control software and services that categorize and block certain sites while leaving everything else wide open. This approach allows only certain sites while blocking everything else. - It does not depend on someone else's subjective criteria. You determine what sites your child can access. - Everything is within Internet Explorer, and completely free. It involves no additional software, add-ons, toolbars, etc. No hardware or mods, no 3rd party services or websites. - Unlike editing the hosts file, Content Advisor enables wildcards (*), so with just one entry you can block / allow an entire site and its subdomains, or only the main site, or just a portion of a site. For example, blocking *yahoo.com will block all yahoo sites, including yahoo.com, answers.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.com, etc. But blocking *answers.yahoo.com will only block Yahoo Answers while allowing all other areas of Yahoo. - Content Advisor is password protected.