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by loneil

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Hi everyone;

I have a problem that's driving me bonkers. Someone put a password on IE on a machine, to limit the sites that can be viewed. I tried every password I could think of, no luck. I tried manually uninstalling IE, re-installing windows environment and then the IE again... no luck. It came back with the prompt again. My guess is there's something in the registry that the instructions from Microsoft's web-site neglected to mention. It's an older PC, so I don't want to spend a fortune trying to fix this. Any ideas?

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by mc_user

This may be to basic, but have you tried resetting the security settings in the control panel- Internet Options - Security back to default settings?

This is one place where the user could have turned on the password protection.

by dhouchin

There is a registry key that needs to be deleted in order to reset the content adviser. The key is located in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Ratings

Delete the KEY key that is located there. After rebooting the system, go into Internet Options, Content tab and disable the Content Adviser.

by kwells1014

Have you tried using Netscape?

Consider also whether the restriction was put there to keep you from doing something that will get you fired.

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