I hate that the group policies specified for our domain accounts have the Internet Explorer home page locked down, and the web proxy enabled. Those settings though are just registry entries, and as there is no inherent security on registry editing, you can just go back in and edit them after login.
After some time interval though I have noticed that there must be a gpupdate or something that resets the keys to the values defined by the policy. I just wrote a quick VBScript to ensure that my preferred settings are made after login.
Set shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", "http://www.google.com.au", "REG_SZ"
shell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Default_Page_URL", "http://www.google.com.au", "REG_SZ"
shell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Bar", "http://www.google.com.au", "REG_SZ"
shell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable", 0, "REG_DWORD"
Most of the time when I pop open IE it is to go to Google. Plus the group policy had some stupid HP news site specified, and several times over the last week their first displayed news story was some model in a state of partial undress – difficult it is when the company policy enforces a breach of company policy…
I'm guessing your running as a local admin... so you could just alter the permissions on the registry key, just remove access for "System". Group Policy updates (i.e. gpupdate) run under the "System" account ;)
ReplyDeleteThen just set it to whatever you want and group policy won't stand a chance.
Have a look near the bottom of this post.
Ooh see now that is clever. It is the whole key though - not that there are any subkeys that I would want to be changed anyway. Let's see you try and send me through the proxy now!
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