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Under the internet options part of the control panel I put a password for the content and i had a brain fart and I forgot the password. :oops: How can I disable the content advisor when I don't know the password.
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I'm guessing delete and reinstall.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I'm guessing delete and reinstall.
Delete IE? From Windows?

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Okay, then don't delete and reinstall... :)

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Get a new browser Such as, Or mabye, you could check this out. Of course you could always look through ie's files and see if you can find the pw file and delete it.
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darthdavid wrote:Get a new browser Such as, Or mabye, you could check this out. Of course you could always look through ie's files and see if you can find the pw file and delete it.
Lets post solutions to the poster's problem rather than sidestepping it, shall we?
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Darth Mall wrote:Under the internet options part of the control panel I put a password for the content and i had a brain fart and I forgot the password. :oops: How can I disable the content advisor when I don't know the password.
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What version of IE is this?

Here are some instructions but only for certain versions AND DO NOT EDIT THE REGISTRY unless you are pretty comfortable with doing so.

1. Open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Rating.
3. Locate and right-click the binary value named Key as shown in Figure A. 4. Select Delete from the drop-down menu and select Yes when asked if you're sure you want to delete the value.
5. Exit the Registry Editor. You've just deleted your original Content Advisor password.
6. Restart the computer and run Internet Explorer again.
7. Open the Internet Options window (how you do this will depend on your particular version of IE), select the Content tab, and click Disable. When asked for a password, don't enter anything; just click OK. This will disable Content Advisor because there's no longer a password. These instructions should work for IE 3.x, 5.x, and 6.x.
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darthdavid wrote: Of course you could always look through ie's files and see if you can find the pw file and delete it.

I gave teh easy side step and the difficult file slog, what more do you want?
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The part about Opera, though I was a bit harsh.
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thnax but how do you open the registery editor in windows ME? :roll: also I have 5.50.blah.blah
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Darth Mall wrote:thnax but how do you open the registery editor in windows ME? :roll: also I have 5.50.blah.blah
run->'regedit'

Same exe name for: win95, win98, win98se, winME, win2k, winXP, win2k3.

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Darth Mall wrote:thnax but how do you open the registery editor in windows ME? :roll: also I have 5.50.blah.blah
Should be the same as all the other versions of Windows. Although, Ive barely ever touched ME.

Go to Start ---> Run ----> type in regedit

IE 5.5 is fine for the solution I printed. Best of luck.
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