http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/archive/tags/Zune/default.aspxTags: Zuneen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/archive/2009/01/03/vista-parental-controls-slows-down-zune-marketplace.aspxSun, 04 Jan 2009 00:53:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9270660dtjones3http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/comments/9270660.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9270660http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9270660<P>I’m a huge fan of my Zune and the Zune Marketplace. I have a Zune and my two daughters do as well. I’ve owned several iPods but I just love my Zune more; especially the subscription option for music. $15/month for all the music I want is fantastic. Yes, not everything is included in it and if I stop paying I lose the music but so what. It’s far cheaper in the long run and allows me to explore a lot more music that I otherwise would. I think this is a great way for artists to gain exposure. Anyway, this isn’t the point of the post.</P> <P>Each of my daughters has their own login to Vista and I’ve setup Parental Controls on their login. This caused a severe performance slow down on the Zune marketplace. Searches and downloads were painfully slow. Running under a full admin account everything worked great. I found one potential solution where the person added 20-something URLs to the allow list. Yuck! That’s not a solution in my book. If one URL changes or another gets added in a software upgrade it’s back to the drawing board. I dug into the Parental Controls stuff in Vista and found a solution. There’s a list of programs that Parental Controls will completely ignore. I added zune.net to the list and viola everything works great. There’s no GUI for this in Vista so it requires editing the registry directly – this means do this at your own risk…</P> <P>Using information from this site: <A href="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial139.html" mce_href="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial139.html">http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial139.html</A> I added a new value for c:\program files\Zune\Zune.exe under the hive: <STRONG>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Parental Controls\HTTPExemptions. </STRONG>This worked like a charm. What this does is exclude zune.net from Parental Controls. I think this is the best option as I can still control browser access but not impact Zune marketplace performance. It's unfortunate that MSFT doesn't provide a GUI to control this list of programs.</P> <P>As I said, I love my Zune and so do my girls. They’ve already downloaded a ton of music and exploring a whole new world!</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9270660" width="1" height="1">Off-topicVistaZune