Posts Tagged ‘group policy editor’

[How To Recover] Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Jan 17, 2008 How To

Muhammad Rizwan asks that whenever he tries to open the task manager, he is encountered by the following error : “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator”

Here is solution from the Microsoft article about enabling the task manager :

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[How To Recover] Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Jan 17, 2008 How To

Today a friend of mine asked that his registry editor had been disabled accidently and now how should he enable it back again. Here are two ways to enable the registry editing in Windows.

1- From Group Policy Editor

Go to Run –> gpedit.msc

In the left hand menu, go to User Config –> Administrative Templated –> System.

Now In the right hand pane, select “Prevent access to registry editing tools”. It will probably be not configured or enabled. If it’s enabled, disable it and if it’s not configured, first enable it, apply settings and then disable it. Most probably the settings have been applied instantly. If not, then run gpupdate in command prompt to apply the group policies.

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[How To Repair] Folder Options Missing In Windows XP

Jan 17, 2008 How To

After a virus attack in one of my client machines, the folder options from the windows explorer was missing and we were unable to show all the files including the hidden ones. So here’s what I did to restore it back:

Go to Run –>gpedit.msc
User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Explorer
Enable and then Disable “Removes Folder Options menu from Tools menu“
Close all windows explorer windows and then open again.. most probably your folder options is back :-)

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