Internet Options Setting

[Gary N]

When I click Tools and then Internet Options a warning
comes up stating "Restrictions This operation has been
cancelled due to restrictions on this computer. Please
contact you system administrator."

This problem has not existed for the past 2 years, it is
my home computer and if there is a system administrator
it would be me. I am using Windows XP Pro and IE 6.0.

Has anyone had this problem? I can't seem to figure out
how to get the Internet Options function to work again.

 

[gary]

do you have a hosts file locking it out or spybots lock on.
or a hijacker. run spybot and update also.
safer-networking.org or ad-aware lavasoftusa.com

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

When I click Tools and then Internet Options a warning
comes up stating "Restrictions This operation has been
cancelled due to restrictions on this computer. Please
contact you system administrator."

This problem has not existed for the past 2 years, it is
my home computer and if there is a system administrator
it would be me. I am using Windows XP Pro and IE 6.0.

Has anyone had this problem? I can't seem to figure out
how to get the Internet Options function to work again.

Close IE.
Open Regedit.
Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.

You might try this from Mike Burgess first if you use SpyBot:
'Did you by chance run SpyBot's Immunize feature?
If so, you can unlock by unchecking the option to "Protect IE Control
Panel".
See http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=6748

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