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bricketts
04-09-2000, 02:14 PM
Hello fellow Registry friends.
I have a weird problem here.
A friend of mine uses IE5. His son, who is about 8, has inadvertently put a password or something, in the Content advisor section of IE, and this actually stops him from starting IE5, even to get a simple home page of his ISP. The error message says "Content advisor has missing settings, please goto Tools, and fix them"..
However to get into tools you need to enter a password. So I tried to uninstall and re-install, however it still kept the content advisor settings. So I had it rever to IE4, in the hope that it would not carry the settins BACKWARDS.. but it did. So I uninstalled IE4, and went through the reigistry, deleting all keys that talked about IE settings of any type. And was pretty precise with that.
Then when I re-installed IE5, again, the content advisor came back, allowing no surfing at all of the web.
So I had to install Netscape to get around this, which is fine for now, but I would like to be able to install IE5 for him again, and his ISP have given him no help for 2 weeks, cause no one ever bothers to ring him back.

So.. can anyone give me some direction?
I have a general knowledge of Registry and how to manipulate it, but im no expert, and am in the begginer stage of learning all this stuff.. so.. thanks in advance friends,
Ben.

reghakr
04-09-2000, 03:08 PM
I'm believe this Content Advisor question has already been answered. Try doing a search on this site.

I'll pass along a list of how to disable IE5 features so it wont happen again.

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\In ternet Explorer\Control Panel]
"Advanced"=dword:00000001 ;disables any changes under Advamced Tab
"Profiles"=dword:00000001 ;disables Profile Assistant button
"Accessibility"=dword:00000001 ;disables all options under Accessibility
"HomePage"=dword:00000001 grays out all buttons and edit box
"links"=dword:00000001 ;disables changing links colors
"Languages"=dword:00000001 ;disables any Language changes
"Certificates"=dword:00000001 ;disables Certificates & Publishers buttons
"Wallet"=dword:00000001 ;disables Microsoft Wallet
"History"=dword:00000001 ;disables Days to keep & Clear History Button
"Colors"=dword:00000001 ;disables changing of colors
"Fonts"=dword:00000001 ;disables changing fonts
"Ratings"=dword:00000001 ;disables Content Advisor
"Cache"=dword:00000001 ;disables changing amount of space & moving of folder

reghakr

bricketts
04-10-2000, 10:44 AM
Thanks Reghakr.
I really appreaciate it.
Have a good day, Ben.

mani_tm
11-10-2000, 05:24 AM
I cannot find anymore keys in my registry after HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft (or)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies

Somebody has put a password for my advisor & I am not able to crack it. Please help out.

Mail: manivannant@mascotsystems.com

Thanks & Regards,
Manivannan