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Just installed Windows 11. No problems with installation.
However, when going through settings adjustments, I find that settings/privacy and location/location, all entries are greyed out, and no changes can be made. Cannot turn on the location entry.
At the top of the page, there is an entry "Some of these settings are managed by your organisation". What organisation? This is my personal PC.
Appreciate any solutions.
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No, these registries focus on removing any group policies that might have placed on the computer if you have ever signed into an organization account before, via Microsoft 365 for example. It wouldn't make things worse. Worst scenario, they will not find any, and delete nothing.
Hi Emily.
Did as you suggested, with some links working, and others not.
Once I rebooted PC, I went back into location settings, and now it is working.
Thanks for your help
Hi Emily. Rather reluctant to fiddle with the files you mentioned. May make matter worse?
All good.. there's no license issue. If you were on volume license, this issue is expected, so that's not your case.
Next, can you please go to Settings > Accounts > Access Work or School, and make sure there's no work/school email address listed there, or no mentioning of Azure AD. If there is, please click on it and then click on disconnect. Then restart the computer and see if it is resolved.
If not, or if nothing is listed there, please type cmd in the search on the taskbar and make sure you select "Run As Administrator" to launch Command Prompt.
Then run the following command and hit enter:
gpupdate /force /boot
Restart the computer and see if it helps. If not, launch Command Prompt in Admin mode again and run the following commands, one at a time. Not all of them will go through completely or value can be found, and that's ok. Once finished, restart the computer again and see if it works.
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v DisableAntiSpyware
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Policies" /f
Sorry.
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