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by tbwolfe

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How do you shut off or reset the Content Advisor within Internet Explorer 5.0 supplied by AOL. A staff member went in and Enabled it inputting a password and now it is needed to Disable it. Tried typing in the password and clicking "Disable" but when shut it down it resets

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by syscokid

You need to edit your registry to do it. Do Run, regedit. You are presented with a Windows Explorer-like interface.

First make a backup by clicking Registrty, Export Registry, give it a name and save.
Now browse to this folder in Regedit (remember to backup your registry first):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ratings
Select the icon called Key in the right-hand pane and press delete. Close Regedit.

You can now start Internet Explorer and goto View, Internet Options.... Select the Content tab, and click on Disable. When asked for a password, don't enter anything, just click on OK. This will disable Content Advisor, since there's no longer a password.

by billc124

One thing that the other poster left out is that you might have to reboot the PC after doing this. Sometimes I have found that you do, sometimes you dont.

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