We lock down Internet Explorer, to prevent our non IT-savvy staff from changing settings which will break their internet access.  We apply those same settings to ourselves, which isn’t as bad as it sounds.  It ensures that when we make a Group Policy change, we’re impacted in the same way if it goes wrong.

But there are times when we need to bypass those settings.  One way we do that is by deleting the Group Policy Registry keys which control Internet Explorer.  We put the following in a .reg file and execute it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

It works quite well.

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