Forget IE tiered Review password solution

A tiered review can help you control the Internet content you see on that computer. This function is very useful, if you have children in your home, this function can help you to prevent him from surfing the internet when you are not at home, such as violence and sex. In fact, people who have used IE may know the classification of the password, if you have not noticed, please run IE, click the "tools" → "Internet Options" menu, in the pop-up dialog box select the "Content" tab.

Click the "Enable" button in the window, in the pop-up window select the "General" tab, as shown in the window you see the "Supervisor password" allows you to change the Content Advisor settings, turn on or off Content Advisor, click "Create password" to create a rating review password.

But in the use of the process if you forget to set the password, then trouble! Once you have set up a rating review password, even reinstalling IE is ineffective. What do we do? Do you want to format the hard drive? I will teach you two tricks to help you solve this problem.

1, modify the registry: Microsoft's things involving passwords are generally related to the registry, before the modification you want to back up your registry, so as not to inadvertently modify the registry incorrectly! Back up, let's get started! Click "Start" → "Run", enter regedit to open Registry Editor, press "enter" Key into the registry. Find Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionpoliciesratings, here's a primary key for "key", which is the rating-checking password you set, Now you can delete it directly. After restarting, you reset IE "Internet properties" → "content" → "level review", you will find that the rating review password has been reset, now you just enter a new rating review password. Of course, delete the "ratings" button directly, you can also remove the restriction of the rating review! This method is valid under Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP.

2, the first method is not familiar with the registry modification of the friend is not very convenient, then I teach you a trick, let you very convenient to solve the problem. You can solve the problem by simply removing the Rating.pol file (which is a hidden file) in the directory of Windowssystem (assuming your operating system is installed in the Windows directory) and deleting it directly. Note that before you delete, you have to close all open windows first. This method applies only to Windows 9x.