Manually Removing Group Policy

Dominic White

 

Manually Removing Group Policy

So you finally got local administor access on your Windows machine. The problem is that you're part of a domain with restrictive group policies and you really want to change your wallpaper, but remain part of the domain.

After some rooting around in the windows registry I found out where the nasty group policy hides. Just nuke everything in these keys, or if you have other intentions, directly modify them here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nicrosoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies

Sunday, August 13. 2006
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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#1 Chuck (Reply)
Posted on Sunday, November 9. 2008
If you have restrictive group policies I doubt very much that you will have access to regedit.exe
 
#2 Dominic White wrote (Link) (Reply)
Posted on Friday, November 14. 2008
Agreed, but: * You don't have to use regedit to edit the registry * Some people do have minimally restrictive policies with access to regedit, in which case the irritating rules can be removed * A privilege escalation hack may be used, where the user wants to continue using their own account afterwards
 

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