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Restrictions in IE--WTH?

Cerb

Cerb

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Spybot, Ad-Aware, and CWShred come up clean, to start things off.

So I needed to check out a website w/ IE, as my dad was across town in his cave (a well lit and air conditioned cave, with three racks and a nice workbench) and needed somebody from outside the firewall to test things out.

So I open IE, go there, and can't log in. OK, go to options to check cookie and javascript settings (since I'm sure I locked them tight)...and I get an error that "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer."
...er, what on earth is going on here? The user I am logged in under is a machine and domain admin. If I log on with the machine admin (my user is an, not the), or domain admin (domain controller's machine admin account), all is well.
 
If you are in a Windows 2000+ AD domain, you may have a group policy applied incorrectly to the domain admin which is prohibiting your changes to IE.

Look here http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/537/ and see if you have any of the registry entries mentioned that restrict the IE control panel. If you do, try using "gpresult" to see what group policies are affecting you and see if they affect IE.
It is also possible you are being affected by a policy file which I believe is stored in \\domainpdc\netlogon\*.pol.
It is also possible some piece of software made the change, in which just delete the polices regsitry keys and you should be back to normal.
 
It's called something different from that link.
It has
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
and the actualoption was in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions
DWORD NoBrowserOptions was set to 1. Now it is 0 and all is fine...however it got changed.

Thanks.

BTW, this is at home, and still running NT4 for a domain controller (though it is about to be a ClarkConnect box--that'll be fun!). And right now, there are no policies in effect, aside from the defaults, and nothing running on logon.
 
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