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Preventing items from appearing in the iTunes window

If you have administrator access to your computer, you can prevent movies, podcasts, Internet radio stations, the iTunes Store, shared music, and other items from appearing on the left side of the iTunes window.

To prevent items from appearing in iTunes:

  1. If you are changing your child's settings, log in to your child's account.
  2. Choose iTunes > Preferences and click Parental.
  3. If the lock is closed, click it and type your administrator password.
  4. Select an item to disable it. For example, if you select Disable Podcasts, Podcasts won't appear in the iTunes window.
  5. To require an administrator password to display an item you disabled (or make any other changes in the Parental pane) click the lock.

If you disable podcasts, you can't subscribe to podcasts in the iTunes Store.

To hide other items, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, and deselect the items you don't want to appear.

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