Certain settings locked by organization's settings

[DnFx91]

So has anyone come across this irritating thing in windows 10 where out of the blue, you cant change certain settings in menus like display settings or lock screen wallpapers, with a message telling you in similar words "certain settings are restricted by your organization's policy" or some crap. I've had a few machines on my fleet come back with this irritating feature and can't find a quick way round it, i've been re-imaging them every bloody time and its getting annoying. Help plz ?

[Guest]

Start run by Win+R and type in gpedit.msc , there'll you'll find the thread to fix it.

I'm looking for it as soon as I find it, I'll be back to you.

[Guest]

Just now, Zackbare said:

Start run by Win+R and type in gpedit.msc , there'll you'll find the thread to fix it.

I'm looking for it as soon as I find it, I'll be back to you.

It happened because of some manipulation done either by you unknowingly or by any 3rd party app.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Zackbare said:

Start run by Win+R and type in gpedit.msc , there'll you'll find the thread to fix it.

I'm looking for it as soon as I find it, I'll be back to you.

You've to look in administrative templates of both user and computer

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

So has anyone come across this irritating thing in windows 10 where out of the blue, you cant change certain settings in menus like display settings or lock screen wallpapers, with a message telling you in similar words "certain settings are restricted by your organization's policy" or some crap. I've had a few machines on my fleet come back with this irritating feature and can't find a quick way round it, i've been re-imaging them every bloody time and its getting annoying. Help plz ?

Click on administrative templates, then on all settings (left) then click on all settings at right and click on state by scrolling right, look for any policy if enabled or disabled, if yes then change it to not configured by opening it. Look for it both in user and computer configuration and tell me back.

[nickil333]

If they are domain computers changing the local group policy wont do anything. you will actually have to go to your domain controller and unset the settings there

[DnFx91]

2 minutes ago, Zackbare said:

Click on administrative templates, then on all settings (left) then click on all settings at right and click on state by scrolling right, look for any policy if enabled or disabled, if yes then change it to not configured by opening it. Look for it both in user and computer configuration and tell me back.

i'm not currently at work, il have a look tomorrow if i can find a machine that exhibits this behaviour, and il get back to you

[DnFx91]

Just now, nickil333 said:

If they are domain computers changing the local group policy wont do anything. you will actually have to go to your domain controller and unset the settings there

they are not domain machines, all local installations

[Guest]

1 minute ago, nickil333 said:

If they are domain computers changing the local group policy wont do anything. you will actually have to go to your domain controller and unset the settings there

I almost forgot that.

[nickil333]

Also some settings set in group policy cannot be unset you actually have to set them to be the opposite (So if enabled disable, Apply, then not configured because otherwise the settings will still be applied) and vice versa.

[DnFx91]

Just now, nickil333 said:

Also some settings set in group policy cannot be unset you actually have to set them to be the opposite (So if enabled disable, Apply, then not configured because otherwise the settings will still be applied

i've never really fiddled around too much with group policy editor tbh, other than locking people wallpapers to really embarrasing shit, il check it out tomorrow and see what i can do

[nickil333]

I have actually been formally trained in how to properly operate a domain and apply group policy settings.

[nickil333]

Is it always the same settings that are locked?? If so what settings are they??

[vaiwalker]

sounds similar to a problem i encountered last month. turns out it was some malware. does your UAC work? if it doesn't im guessing it might be the same problem as mine. gpedits didn't work. had to clean out my temp folders, registry, services.. look under your installed programs and sort them out by latest install, see anything suspicious?

[DnFx91]

4 hours ago, vaiwalker said:

sounds similar to a problem i encountered last month. turns out it was some malware. does your UAC work? if it doesn't im guessing it might be the same problem as mine. gpedits didn't work. had to clean out my temp folders, registry, services.. look under your installed programs and sort them out by latest install, see anything suspicious?

jeez, if it does turn out to be malware il just re-image them and be done with it, i'll have a look and let you know.