disabling IE's content advisor

[dirtboy]

Someone here at work enabled the content advisor in IE and forgot the password. 🙁 The worse part is every web site we try to pull up is banned by the advisor. Nice. I check the MS Knowledge base and there seems to be no solution.

Anyone know how to disable it, find the password file and hack it?

I really don't want to reload the whole system just for this.

 

[Ladi]

According to the Knowledge Base, you need to contact one of their techs: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q155/6/09.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0. My suspicion is that if you find someone who read their MCSE books in detail...

~Ladi

 

[dirtboy]

Yes, but if you did deeper, it says they will not assist with cracking or disabling the password or recommend how. 🙁 I was hoping that someone else may have had the problem and figured out a way around it.

 

[Ulysses]

I don't know what kind of system you have, but could you not save your favorites and cookies, then uninstall IE, then reinstall it from the MS site or whereever, and then import back the favorites and cookies?

 

[loner]

The following is ripped from win98central:

The supervisor password is held in the registry. That is why uninstalling and reinstalling will not fix it. The key is as follows:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\
Current Version\Policies\Ratings

there will be a key there labeled "key", (original ain't it?). That key holds the encrypted content advisor Supervisor password. Delete that key. That will set the Content Advisor Password to blank.

Hope this helps 🙂

 

[dirtboy]

Thanks again loner! 😀 😀 😀

 

[loner]

Anytime dirtboy. Anything to avoid the painful "format c:" 😉