How do you disable Group Policy

[Alsweet]

Hi all, I've finally decided to post my own thread as I've been through all the other threads and they don't work.

I'm trying to disable The group policy setting on my XP computer as I believe it is the source to the problems that I am having trying to set up a local network with my flat mates.

When I go to firewall settings at the top it says;
"For your security, some setting are controlled by group policy" and the radio
buttons underneath are greyed out.

I've been working on this problem for a while and have tried a few techniques so far, the main answer that I find is to do as follows;

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
[ In most cases, this registry key is not present and will need to be created ]
Modify/Create the Value Data Type(s) and Value Name(s) as detailed below.
Data Type: DWORD Value // Value Name: DisableGPO
Setting for Value Data: [0 = Default (Enabled) / 1 = Disabled]
Exit Registry and Reboot

I have tried this and the group policy still has control over the firewall. My account is the only account on the computer so is the administrator so I am pretty much baffled.

Any one have any ideas of anything I could try?

Thanks a lot, Alsweeet

HOW TO Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313222

[Alsweet]

thanks mark but i had no luck with the linked tutorial,
the "secedit" commands had no effect in the command prompt for me.

any other suggestions?

Alsweet wrote:
> thanks mark but i had no luck with the linked tutorial,
> the "secedit" commands had no effect in the command prompt for me.
>
> any other suggestions?

You have replied to a newsgroup post from a forum that has decided to
synchronize their data with said newsgroup. Thus - the majority of
newsgroup users sees the above only. Kind of leaving out the meat of the
post.

So I did a quick search and found how old the posting was (December 5, 2008?
Ouch. Not so fast on the 'get back to you' thing, eh...? *grin*)

Hopefully someone can review the posting and help you; my comment is a
suggestion that you may - in the future - want to include the prior posting
material in your responses. ;-)

Entire conversation thusfar...
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e94acb84e75cf/

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[Knux23]

Hey man.

Long story short, out of desperation with this same problem, I found another forum entry where someone discovered the registry key that let him turn his firewall on and off, while the group policy 'greying-out' remained in effect. I figured if you deleted that registry key, control should return to the user....

So...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft >

Then delete the entire folder entitled 'windows firewall'.

Fixed the problem for me so far. Unsure if there will be repurcussions, so only to be used as a last resort.

Cheers