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

Answer 1

for me the default search in chrome was locked by smartsputnik.ru. and deleting all the entries in registry and also resetting and reinstalling chrome did not helped . except the below solution.

1. Delete related key from the registry entry- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACCHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
2. Delete file - C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\registry.pol
3. Restart computer and the problem will be solved

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Answer 2

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.