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Set up monitoring on a child's PC

Download. Run. Sign in. Done.

A real Windows installer with a sign-in form. No PowerShell, no terminal. Run it on the child's PC, type your parent email and password, and you're done in about 90 seconds.

⬇ Download Installer (.exe)

Windows · ~20 MB · agent & OCR included · auto-updates after install

What the installer does for you, in order:
  1. Asks for your parent email + password (right inside the installer window)
  2. Signs you in and enrolls this PC into your family — every PC gets its own unique token
  3. Installs the agent to C:\ProgramData\TaterTots with locked-down permissions
  4. Silently installs Tesseract OCR for full-text search of screenshots
  5. Registers the agent as a Windows Service that auto-starts and self-heals
  6. From here on, the agent auto-updates itself every 6 hours — you won't reinstall

Step-by-step on the child's PC

  1. Move tots-installer.exe to the child's PC. USB stick, OneDrive, Slack to yourself, whatever — just get the file onto their Windows machine.
  2. Right-click → Run as administrator. The installer needs admin rights so it can register the monitoring service. Always click "Yes" on the User Account Control prompt that appears.
  3. If you see "Windows protected your PC":
    • Click More info (small text below the "Don't run" button)
    • Then click Run anyway
    • This appears because we haven't paid for code-signing yet. It goes away once we do.
  4. The installer window opens. You'll see "TATER · TOTS" at the top and a sign-in form. If nothing happens at all after running as administrator:
    • Open File Explorer to %TEMP% (paste that into the address bar)
    • Open tots-installer.log — it records what the installer did, including any startup errors
    • Email us the log: hello@tatersecurity.com
  5. Sign in with your parent email + password (the same one you use at app.tots.tatersecurity.com).
  6. Label the device ("Alice's laptop", "Family room PC") and optionally type the child's name. Click Install.
  7. Wait ~90 seconds. You'll see a progress log as it enrolls, drops files, installs Tesseract OCR, and registers the Windows service. A success dialog confirms when done.
  8. You can close the installer. Sign in at the dashboard — the new device appears within a minute.
Important: The installer must run as administrator. If you just double-click it, Windows will silently exit when it detects insufficient privileges. Always right-click → Run as administrator.

Verify

  1. Sign in at the dashboard — your new device shows up in the Devices tab within a minute.
  2. From there, you can rename it, set time budgets, schedule blocks, or watch the activity feed.
Auto-update: once installed, the agent checks for new versions every 6 hours and updates itself in place. You won't reinstall when we ship a new version — your kids' PCs will pick it up automatically.

Advanced

PowerShell one-liner install (no GUI)

Same install logic, but runs in a terminal. Useful for remote-installing on multiple PCs.

irm https://app.tots.tatersecurity.com/install | iex
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