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I recently updated my Chrome browser and noticed something very weird. Many fields in the Settings have been disabled. 'This setting is enforced by your administrator' appears next to many fields including my saved passwords section (which I need to look up one my old passwords for a website).
Anyway, I've googled this problem on the internet many times, and I haven't been able to find a viable solution.
How do I get rid of this admin lock?
p.s. I'm connected to Chrome with my Google account.
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I found a better solution on the Chrome product forums by a user called Gary. The original thread is here.
Navigate to C:WindowsSystem32GroupPolicy
Open each subdirectory there and change the
*.pol
files to *.sav
, E.g. registry.pol
becomes registry.sav
.Hit Windows-Key + R, type the following in the box and hit enter
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREGoogleChrome
In the command promt window that opens type: Yes and press Enter.
Restart Google Chrome and check whether you can change the search engine.
Nick CardosoNick Cardoso14.3k66 gold badges5151 silver badges9090 bronze badges
Any one on windows 10 Pro , this is for you guys --
- Open CMD in administrator mode .
- Paste below code-
- After few seconds you will see this -
- Now you can change your search engine to whatever you want.
Thank you
Sagar NayakSagar Nayak1,30822 gold badges1010 silver badges3838 bronze badges
Try to use this solution:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesGoogleChrome
Run regedit, Delete the key, then restart Chrome.
Dayton WangDayton Wang
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Actually, I've got a bit more precise solution, which might be useful if you don't want to change/delete anything else.
Run
regedit
, and at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesGoogleChrome
key you should have a PasswordManagerEnabled
property, which probably is set to 0
.Simply change it to
1
.Edit:I tried it on some other computer and it didn't want to work, so I rebooted my computer, made sure Chrome is closed, then changed it in the registry, and finally it worked.So make sure Chrome is closed when you do this.
Eel LeeEel Lee2,93322 gold badges2424 silver badges4141 bronze badges
for me the default search in chrome was locked by smartsputnik.ru. and deleting all the entries in registry and also resetting and reinstalling chrome did not helped . except the below solution.
- Delete related key from the registry entry-ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACCHINESOFTWAREPoliciesGoogleChrome
- Delete file - C:WindowsSystem32GroupPolicyMachineregistry.pol
- Restart computer and the problem will be solved
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In my case, the setting was
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesGoogleChrome
I deleted
jbarramedajbarramedaChrome
and everything is fine now.98711 gold badge1010 silver badges1818 bronze badges
(MacOS) I got this issue after getting some malware that was forcing me to use WeKnow as a search engine. To fix this on MacOs I followed these steps
- Go to System Preferences, then check if there's an icon named Profiles.
- Remove AdminPrefs profile
- Change default search engine settings, Restart Chrome
The above partially helped (I still had WeKnow as my home page). After that I followed these steps:
- Type chrome://policy/ to see the policies. You cannot change them there
- Copy paste this into your terminal
defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false
defaults write com.google.Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string 'https://www.google.com/'
defaults write com.google.Chrome HomepageLocation -string 'https://www.google.com/'
defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL
defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL
defaults delete com.google.Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName
I've also ran a scan of my system with Avast antivirus that has detected some malware
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