Group Policy disabling

[lazyboy947]

My friend is an administrator on a pc that he shares with his mom, but he cant install anything like his games, he has no parental control settings, and everytime he tries to install something it says blocked by group policy. We went on his moms account which is main admin, and attempted to turn off group policy, but the service could not be stopped nor would it disable. Her account has no issues doing what he cant. Found the way to disable it by going to admin tools, and then group policy management, but GPM is not in admin tools. I disabled the service in msconfig and reset and it turned back on. What do i do?

 

[Saga Lout]

Tell him to talk to his mother. Sometimes, parents do things for a reason.

 

[lazyboy947]

His mom isnt real technology smart to where she would activate a grout policy, if anything she'd do the parental controls. Hes an admin, he knows her account password as she told him so i dont think he meant to set something up on purpose

 

[Saga Lout]

Maybe you could do what he wants in Safe Mode using the Administrator account to make changes in his account. There will be a setting which prevents him installing progammes and that's what you're looking for.

 

[lazyboy947]

Alright that sounds promising, what would i be looking for once in safe mode to change the settings?

 

[Saga Lout]

Head for Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Policy and see what settings look like in Software restriction Policies for starters. If that fails, hope like Hell that someone else comes along because I'm running Linux all night and can't get near a Windows system. 😀

 

[lazyboy947]

alright, next time im near his pc ill see if that helps thx so far, will be back if i need more help.