Internet Explorer 6 Content Advisor - user has forgotten password :-(

[Martin Underwood]

A customer has obtained an XP Home SP1 PC secondhand and it refuses to
access web sites using IE because Content Advisor is enabled and has not
been set to allow unrated content. Unfortunately the previous owner has no
idea what the Content Advisor password is and didn't even know that it had
been set.

Is there a way to reset the password or to disable Content Advisor?

I tried creating a new Windows user, but this inherits the same state of
CA - it seems to be a system-wide rather than user-specific setting.

I've installed Opera which is fine for most things, but Windows Update only
works with Internet Explorer.

support.microsoft.com doesn't mention anything useful, but then they
probably wouldn't publicise a back door.

 

[MJP]

A customer has obtained an XP Home SP1 PC secondhand and it refuses to
access web sites using IE because Content Advisor is enabled and has not
been set to allow unrated content. Unfortunately the previous owner has no
idea what the Content Advisor password is and didn't even know that it had
been set.

Is there a way to reset the password or to disable Content Advisor?

I tried creating a new Windows user, but this inherits the same state of
CA - it seems to be a system-wide rather than user-specific setting.

I've installed Opera which is fine for most things, but Windows Update
only works with Internet Explorer.

support.microsoft.com doesn't mention anything useful, but then they
probably wouldn't publicise a back door.

Although not a direct answer to your query, Firefox works with windows
update at http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

MJP

 

[Tony Mountifield]

A customer has obtained an XP Home SP1 PC secondhand and it refuses to
access web sites using IE because Content Advisor is enabled and has not
been set to allow unrated content. Unfortunately the previous owner has no
idea what the Content Advisor password is and didn't even know that it had
been set.

Is there a way to reset the password or to disable Content Advisor?

Doing a google for "content advisor password" returns a lot of relevant hits,
including http://www.pchell.com/support/contentadvisor.shtml

Cheers
Tony

 

[Philip Herlihy]

A customer has obtained an XP Home SP1 PC secondhand and it refuses to
access web sites using IE because Content Advisor is enabled and has not
been set to allow unrated content. Unfortunately the previous owner has no
idea what the Content Advisor password is and didn't even know that it had
been set.

Is there a way to reset the password or to disable Content Advisor?

I tried creating a new Windows user, but this inherits the same state of
CA - it seems to be a system-wide rather than user-specific setting.

I've installed Opera which is fine for most things, but Windows Update only
works with Internet Explorer.

support.microsoft.com doesn't mention anything useful, but then they
probably wouldn't publicise a back door.

There are various utilities available which will extract and display
password fields. Try http://www.nirsoft.net/

Phil, London

 

[Tony Sutton]

Although not a direct answer to your query, Firefox works with windows
update at http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

Would you trust 3rd party website?