Google Chrome This setting is enforced by your administrator

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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 next to many fields including my saved passwords section  which I need to look up one my old passwords for a website     Anyway  I ve googled this problem on the internet many times  and I haven t been able to find a viable solution    How do I get rid of this admin lock   p s  I m connected to Chrome with my Google account

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MacOS  I got this issue after getting some malware that was forcing me to use WeKnow as a search engine  To fix this on MacOs I followed these steps   Go to System Preferences  then check if there s an icon named Profiles   Remove AdminPrefs profile Change default search engine settings  Restart Chrome   The above partially helped  I still had WeKnow as my home page   After that I followed these steps    Type chrome   policy  to see the policies  You cannot change them there Copy paste this into your terminal   defaults write com google Chrome HomepageIsNewTabPage -bool false  defaults write com google Chrome NewTabPageLocation -string  https   www google com    defaults write com google Chrome HomepageLocation -string  https   www google com    defaults delete com google Chrome DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL  defaults delete com google Chrome DefaultSearchProviderNewTabURL  defaults delete com google Chrome DefaultSearchProviderName  I ve also ran a scan of my system with Avast antivirus that has detected some malware

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Any one on windows 10 Pro   this is for you guys --   Open CMD in administrator mode   Paste below code-  RD  S  Q   WinDir  System32 GroupPolicyUsers   RD  S  Q   WinDir  System32 GroupPolicy   gpupdate  force  After few seconds you will see this -  User Policy update has completed successfully  Computer Policy update has completed successfully   Now you can change your search engine to whatever you want    Thank you

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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    Delete related key from the registry entry- Computer HKEY LOCAL MACCHINE SOFTWARE Policies Google Chrome Delete file - C  Windows System32 GroupPolicy Machine registry pol Restart computer and the problem will be solved   reddit source

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In my case  the setting was HKEY CURRENT USER Software Policies Google Chrome  I deleted Chrome and everything is fine now

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Actually  I ve got a bit more precise solution  which might be useful if you don t want to change delete anything else   Run regedit  and at the HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Google Chrome key you should have a PasswordManagerEnabled property  which probably is set to 0   Simply change it to 1   Edit  I tried it on some other computer and it didn t want to work  so I rebooted my computer  made sure Chrome is closed  then changed it in the registry  and finally it worked  So make sure Chrome is closed when you do this

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Try to use this solution   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Google Chrome  Run regedit  Delete the key  then restart Chrome

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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

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On Linux  you can get rid of  quot Managed by your organization quot  Chrome policies  by removing these directories  as sudo probably    etc opt chrome policies  etc opt chrome policies managed  etc opt chrome policies recommended

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