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Deleting a Software Restriction Policy in Windows XP

Dec 3, 2003 2:25AM PST

I let my brother on the computer and he was messin around and somehow enabled a software restriction policy and now im having loads of probs with my pc. Norton internet security 2004 wont work, windows update wont work and my computers being really wierd. Ive tried minimizing the effect by removing all the exacutable files etc of the restriction list. Plz help is there a way to delete the policy?

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Re:Deleting a Software Restriction Policy in Windows XP
Dec 4, 2003 9:26AM PST

you have to change the security restrictions on your login. do you still have administrator privileges? if not, then you need to figure out how to login as Administrator. do you have the password for Administrator.

Herb...

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Re:Deleting a Software Restriction Policy in Windows XP
Dec 12, 2003 11:26PM PST

Was he logged in as Administrator? Create another user with admin rights and see if you can run those programs logged in as the new user. You might have to clean this out of the registry as well.
Bill