Tips to Remove Content Advisor Password in Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) or Windows 8

Windows 8 and also IE10 have changed the name of this function to Family Safety. An Administrator account handles Family Safety for the other accounts. This can be done from the PC or from the Family Safety website login.However, if you used content advisor before and upgraded to Windows 8 or IE10, then it may not be possible to remove the Content Advisor password unless you use the procedure below.

1) Go to Search in Windows 8 and type REGEDIT and run it.

2) Now click on the little plus sign to the left of H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

3) Continue to drill down, always clicking on the plus sign at the left of the named key, through Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version and Policies.

4) Now click on the Ratings folder and Delete it

5) Close the Registry Editor

6) Restart the computer and the Content Advisor password should be removed.

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Troubleshoot blank desktop On PC

To put it simply you have a corrupted, moved, and or missing explorer.exe file, the source behind your graphicly user interface (GUI) and your DESKTOP, ICONS, AND START MENU. This is often the cause of a virus/ Malware infection.

Heres the fixes in the order that they should be performed:

1: Try opening Windows Task manager. Do this by pressing Control+ALT+Del. If this does not work then skip to step 2. If it opens up then click on the new task button and type in “explorer.exe” (without quotes of course). If this restores your desktop then your good to go! Have fun, and thanks for reading. However if this does not work but your task manager worked then start a new task called cmd.exe and go to step 3 (skip 2, thats for people who have no task manager).

2: Restart windows in Safe Mode With Command Prompt by cycling the computers power and pressing F8 repeatedly when the first screen comes up. When the choice menu comes up, choose “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and move to step 3.

3: If you’ve gotten to here then I have some bad news: your explorer.exe has been damaged, moved or deleted, not simply turned off. The good news is that you can still fix it easily! heres what you’ve got to do. In Command prompt (which you should have open) type this command exactly:

cd %systemroot%\i386

It should take you to that folder, and once you are there type in:

expand explorer.ex_ %systemroot%\explorer.exe

Voila! You have replaced your explorer.exe with a (hopefully) healthy one!

To run it simply type:

start %systemroot% explorer

Your Problem should now be fixed. If you are still having problem then you will only have two other choices 1) Do a system repair if you have your Recovery CDs or 2) Format and Reinstall the entire Operating System with either your Recovery CD or Recovery Partition (however, give us a call before you do this so that we can recover your data before you lose it).

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Best way to Remove Content Advisor Password in Internet Explorer

The following steps will remove any password set in the Internet Explorer Content Advisor and allow you to reset the program to its original state.

1) Click on Start and choose Run.

2) Type in RegEdit and select OK.

3) Now click on the little plus sign to the left of H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

4) Continue to drill down, always clicking on the plus sign at the left of the named key, through Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version and Policies.

5) Now click on the Ratings folder.

6) In the right pane of the RegEdit window, you’ll see an icon called Key. Click on it and press Delete.

7) Next, choose Registry and then Exit to exit RegEdit. You’ve just deleted your original Content Advisor password.

8) Restart the computer and run Internet Explorer again.

9) Choose View and then Internet Options (or Options for version 3.x). For IE 5 or greater, Click on Tools, Internet Options.

10) Click on the Content tab and click on Disable. When asked for a password, don’t enter anything; just click on OK. This will disable Content Advisor because there’s no longer a password.

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Best way to Remove MSBLAST.exe worm virus

Follow these steps in removing the MSBLAST or MSBLASTER worm.

1) Disconnect your computer from the local area network or Internet

2) Terminate the running program

• Open the Windows Task Manager by either pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL, selecting the Processes tab or selecting Task Manager and then the process tab on WinNT/2000/XP machines.
• Locate one of the following programs (depending on variation), click on it and End Task or End Process

MSBLAST.EXE
PENIS32.EXE
TEEKIDS.EXE
MSPATCH.EXE
MSLAUGH.EXE
ENBIEI.EXE

• Close Task Manager

3) Install the patches for the DCOM RPC Exploit, you can download the patches from the links below before disconnecting

Windows XP Pro/Home Edition

Windows 2000

Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0

Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition 

Windows XP (64 bit) (server edition)

Windows 2003 (32 bit)

Windows 2003 (64 bit)

If you receive a “cryptographic service” error when you try to apply the patch, please read the following excellent article on how to fix this error:

http://www.updatexp.com/cryptographic-service.html

4) Block access to TCP port 4444 at the firewall level, and then block the following ports, if they do not use the applications listed:

• TCP Port 135, “DCOM RPC”
• UDP Port 69, “TFTP”

5) Remove the Registry entries

• Click on Start, Run, Regedit
• In the left panel go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Run

• In the right panel, right-click and delete the following entry

”windows auto update” = MSBLAST.EXE (variant A)
”windows auto update” = PENIS32.EXE (variant B)
”Microsoft Inet xp..” = TEEKIDS.EXE (variant C)
“Nonton Antivirus”=MSPATCH.EXE (variant E)
“Windows Automation” = “mslaugh.exe” (variant F)
“www.hidro.4t.com”=”enbiei.exe” (variant G)

• Close the Registry Editor

6) Delete the infected files (for Windows ME and XP remember to turn off System Restore before searching for and deleting these files to remove infected backed up files as well)

• Click Start, point to Find or Search, and then click Files or Folders.
  
• Make sure that “Look in” is set to (C:\WINDOWS).
  
• In the “Named” or “Search for…” box, type, or copy and paste, the file names:
  msblast*.* (or other filenames listed above)
  
• Click Find Now or Search Now.
  
• Delete the displayed files.
  
• Empty the Recycle bin, the worm can reinfect even if the files are in the recycle bin.

7) Reboot the computer, reconnect the network, and update your antivirus software, and run a thorough virus scan using your favorite antivirus program.

8) Now check for the worm again, if it returns, complete these steps once more until the virus is gone. With the patch in place, the virus wont be able to exploit the system, but sometimes it is difficult to remove the files for good.

For Automatic Removal of MSBLAST, download the Symantec removal tool, you’ll still need to download the patches above and install them, however this removal tool will stop the MSBLAST program from running, remove the items in the registry, and delete the infected files.

You can find more information about this worm by visiting Symantec’s or TrendMicro’s pages on this worm

Microsoft’s Page on What You Should Know About the Blaster worm

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Fix Win XP Task Manager disabled by your administrator /Virus

 

This usually happens because of a virus infection. Of Course, try to remove the virus first since any changes that you make will be reverted by the virus that may still be on the computer.

However, if you are pretty sure that the virus infection has been eliminated then go ahead and try these methods below:

Method 1:

•Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
•Navigate to the following branch:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System
•In the right-pane, delete the value named DisableTaskMgr
•Close Regedit.exe

Method 2:

•Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
•Navigate to this branch:
User Configuration / Administrative Templates / System / Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options / Remove Task Manager
•Double-click the Remove Task Manager option.
•Set the policy to Not Configured.

Method3:  Change the Task Manager Option through the Run line

1. Click on Start, Run and type the following command exactly and press Enter

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Method 4: Change Task Manager through a Registry REG file

1. Click on Start, Run, and type Notepad and press Enter
2. Copy and paste the information between the dotted lines into Notepad and save it to your desktop as taskmanager.reg

————————————
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“DisableTaskMgr”=dword:00000000
————————————-

3. Double click on the taskmanager.reg file to enter the information into the Windows registry

Method 5: Delete the restriction in the registry manually

1. Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter
2. Navigate to the following branch
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System
   
3. In the right pane, find and delete the value named DisableTaskMgr
4. Close the registry editor

 

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