Parental Control Software Problems
Austin “Snowy” Milner has asked a question that I… really don’t know how to answer, since I’ve never really dealt with parental control software. Seems that someone’s screwed up Internet Explorer:
My friend decided to screw around with my computer, by putting parental controls on my IE7 with a completely random password (button mashing on the keyboard). While IE7 is not my primary browser (w00t Firefox!), it’s still annoying every time I sign into Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN messenger), I get the parental control popup asking me to sign in to view one of their advertisements, or view my mail. I tried to uninstall IE7 hoping that it would fix the problem, but unfortunitly it didn’t. I really don’t see the need to use Trillian, or another program like that, as I only use MSN and Xfire for my instant messengers. This is what happens every time I click the little MSN icon in the bottom right. If you could please help me out it would be greatly appreciated!
Thank goodness we haven’t ever had to deal with prenatal control software problems, yet.
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parental control detailed information
November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am
Austin “Snowy” Milner has asked a question that I… really don’t know how to answer, since I’ve never really dealt with software. Seems that someone’s screwed up Internet Explorer:. My friend decided to screw around with … Read more
Sam
May 28th, 2007
at 9:19am
If you have administrator access, some simple registry edits will work.
All you need to do is delete 2 keys:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Ratings]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Ratings]
Delete those and you are fine.
keys via http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/60/
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Snowy
June 3rd, 2007
at 1:04pm
Hey thanks Sam, that link seemed to work for me! :)
SocioBiblog
June 21st, 2007
at 12:57pm
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Eric
October 10th, 2007
at 5:52pm
I have a problem. YOu see, one night, I was trying to get on the internet, and it asked me for my username and password. Even after inserting said information, it wouldn’t let me on. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
theresa m cherwak
December 7th, 2007
at 6:05pm
i have a major problem. I cannot use the computer for news, games, etc
what comes on is kol —-saying you need permission to use this sight when i want to do any of the above. please advise, 4 technicians from aol tried to get this out. so far no luck. very frustrating.