Unable to turn off “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator” in YouTube, but I AM the administrator. Help!

Anonymous
2018-04-24T15:11:11+00:00

Unable to turn off “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator” in YouTube, but IAM the administrator. Help!

Hi all,

Here’s the nub of the problem: 

YouTube says: “Restricted Mode is enabled by your network administrator.” but I AM the administrator of my own home pc. I'm totally mystified as to how this got activated in the first place and I can't find a way of undoing it. How do I switch this off?!?

I’m using Windows 7 and Google Chrome on a home computer. Any chance anyone could help me (and the no doubt countless others out there plagued with the same problem) out?

I’ve already trawled YouTube and Chrome forums on this and have drawn a dud at every turn. No help there. The problem is not a Family Safety issue, as I don’t have a family account. So you are quite possibly my last hope of resolving this.

I’ve even tried the regedit route (i.e. switching the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\ForceSafeSearch register key value to 0), but that, too, was a dead end because no such Google key or policy exists in the Policies folder on my pc.

I’m not a PC expert, so you may need to spell things out in fairly plain English for me.

Big, big thanks in advance for any assistance with this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-13T22:44:48+00:00

    my internet service provider has restricted mode turned off for all devices, yet it still is restricted.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-10-06T17:35:41+00:00

    I have the same problem on my Windows 10 PC. Now I can't even read comments on Youtube! This started when I changed my Youtube profile picture from another brand account, I figured that's the reason why but I can't seem to change it back.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-14T15:20:15+00:00

    Finally a decent shot at fixing this. An impressive set of deft moves Andrew – and very glad it worked for you. For me and probably most others, though, the fix fails at the point of needing a boot disc. I just ‘aint got one! So that’s a non-starter right there. Big thanks for posting this up though. If I only had the boot disc I’d give it a go...   

    MS makes it pretty easy these days to create one on a flash drive.  Just grab a 16gb USB drive and download the Windows 10 installation media creator and it will do the rest.  After that, it's just a matter of making sure you have Secure Boot turned off in UEFI/BIOS and then boot from the USB drive.

    Good luck!

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T03:38:28+00:00

    i had it too today.. for me, I just need to update it to the latest update and relaunched it.

    the problems gone, but it came back again. and then I opened a new youtube tab and it went normal again. I think it might be just internal server error because i got this too.

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