Google Chrome: This setting is enforced by your administrator

Question

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.

Answer 1

I found a better solution on the Chrome product forums by a user called Gary. The original thread is here.

Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy

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_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome

In the command promt window that opens type: Yes and press Enter.

Restart Google Chrome and check whether you can change the search engine.

Answer 2

Any one on windows 10 Pro , this is for you guys --

1. Open CMD in administrator mode .

2. Paste below code-

   RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" 
   RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" 
   gpupdate /force
   

3. After few seconds you will see this -

   User Policy update has completed successfully.
   Computer Policy update has completed successfully.
   

4. Now you can change your search engine to whatever you want.

Thank you