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Kindle Fire to a Microsoft Exchange-based account.

While this won’t apply to many users it is nevertheless a useful feature, but you will require the assistance of your

network administrator to assist in the correct conguration of Install Secure Credentials, Set Credential Storage

Password and Use Secure Credentials. Note that you can reset these options with Clear Credential Storage.

9.3 Parental Controls

More and more prominence is being given to parental controls on consumer computers of different types and the

Kindle Fire is no different.

After all, with a credit card assigned to your account you could end up running up huge bills if the device fell into the

wrong hands!

While desktop parental control tools will enable you to setup and congure behaviours for your computer based on

a wide variety of possibilities, things are a lot more basic on the Kindle Fire. Here, via Settings > More > Parental

Controls you can simply toggle the option On or Off. Despite this overarching policy, however, this is a useful feature

not only for protecting your device from children but also from potential thieves. Parental Controls restricts purchases,

certain content types, inappropriate web pages and more, and when activated you can set a secure password that will

make your device pretty useless to anyone who has immoral aims.

9.4 Changing the Device Owner and Resetting Your Kindle Fire

However regularly you use your Kindle Fire, there may well come a time at which you decide that you need to make

some changes.

These changes might be severe – you might opt to give the device away, for instance – or they might be more func-

tional, such as applying an update.

Changing the account on your Kindle Fire means deregistering the device, which can be done via Settings > More

> My Account. Once an account is deregistered, a new Amazon account can be entered, or setup as described in 2

Setting Up the Kindle Fire. This will then prompt the device to sync the new owner’s purchased content – books, mu-

sic, videos, etc. – while the previous owner is forgotten.