Windows 11 - Restrictions

[erazor51]

When trying to access Device Manager, Disk Management, Services etc (I assume other apps too) I am getting the following errors. Has anyone encountered this? Any possible fix?

Thanks

 

[erazor51]

Someone has set group policies on the machine, assuming it's not your work admin and you're not joined to a domain you'll need to check what policies have been set either through gpedit.msc or, as I'm going to guess that's been blocked, via regedit.exe by checking the "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" key to see if there's a value or key under it called "DisallowRun".

If you want to be thorough, also i can't remember if program restrictions only apply in the user context, you can search the entire registry for "DisallowRun" using something like NirSoft's RegScanner.

Thanks for your help on this. I checked regedit and DisallowRun was set to 1. I changed it to 0, restarted the PC and everything is working now.

It is my personal machine and not tied to any work domain. However, I had Office 365 logged in with my work email as it has an active license. Could this be the reason? I don't see why logging into Office would do that, it would be strange if it did. Also before I changed DisallowRun from 1 to 0 I logged out of my work account from office 365 to see if it changed anything but still got the same error.

 

[erazor51]

No worries, thanks for your help. I'm glad that fixed the issue.

Before I posted here I tried the following:

- DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
- sfc /scannow
- Windows reinstall with the option to keep data and apps

Obviously, none of that worked, and wasted a lot of time doing it.