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by kurtandersen

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I have a client who activated the Content Advisor in IE5, they have since tried to disable it, to no avail, the next time they use IE, it is activated again. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE, same problem, have tried other user profiles without success, OS is Win95b

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by paul d. masley

The simple cure is to remove all *.pwl files on this computer, reboot, then add passwords as needed. Hope this helps.

by jmstitt

Need some more information. Is an administrator password set? Have you tried resetting IE5 to default values under the , then hit the button. I had an unknown student turn on the content advisor. I had to install Netscape to allow other students to browse the Internet. Later, I rebuilt the machine from scratch. Microsoft says it can't crack the passwords if they have been set. Please respond with more information. Thanks

by mckaytech

There was a question on this forum a few days ago on the same topic. Two readers answered that you could remove the registry key with the password and that would set the password to the default of .

Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact key location but if you serve the archives for the forum, you should be able to find those answers.

paul

by mckaytech

I found the other answer - the key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ratings

Thanks should go to AsyscoKid for that answer!

paul

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