Recent content by barwick11

Dangit, are you guys as stumped as I am?

Did you try running it as administrator? Or possibly going into windows explorer to the folder that the homeworld folder is in, right clicking on the homeworld folder and clicking properties, then go into security tab -> advanced -> owner, and set yourself to owner?

I've got a laptop that used to be connected to a domain that was locked down tighter than Fort Knox... I think I cleared out all the old GPO's, but I'm still digging for ancient registry values and other settings everywhere that locked things down. Right now, I'm having trouble connecting my...

Resetting local group policy cleared up the windows firewall problem, rebooted and it stayed fixed, so let's see if there's any other gems left hidden in here at some point, we'll see. Thanks.

Thanks. I actually had the ability to go in and allow specific programs, so that was ok. The #3 you wrote, that was a good idea, I tried it, deleted them and rebooted, and apparently there's still GPO's in there somewhere because those registry keys reappeared when I rebooted :(

Yeah everything's greyed out. Specifically if I want to go in to "turn windows firewall on or off", everything in there is grayed out, and it says "some settings are managed by your system administrator"

Now, the group policies are still there, denying me making any changes to windows firewall, etc. Any ideas?

Thanks. I actually just found out it is (well, was) McAfee enterprise. I couldn't touch it with the uninstall without the password, not happy. Turns out I went in one by one to all the .exe's and changed the owner from "system" to "administrator". Rebooted a few times here and there into...

I've got a comp that used to be connected to a domain where it was locked down pretty tightly. I've got full admin rights on it, but it's still denying me the right to change settings in McAfee (and other programs like Windows Firewall, etc). I *thought* I cleared out all group policies on the...