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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-12-19T23:12:46+00:00

    If you are using Windows Defender, turning off Cloud protection worked. Leave the File protection on.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T00:30:49+00:00

    Thank you, Eeyore1878!  When I checked my Chrome Extensions, sure enough, my antivirus program had added an extension for encrypted browsing protection.  I turned that off, and now I'm not restricted anymore!  Woo hoo!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-12-07T20:47:28+00:00

    my email address is ******@gmail.com unable to turn off restricted made is enabled by your network administrator help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-12-07T20:42:01+00:00

    detected network cable is not properly plugged in or may be broken plug on ethernet cable on or into computer check windows 7/network &internet D H C P. windows topics desktop starte perdonalization devices drivers windows update recovery backup performance&system failures unable to turn of restricted made is enable by my network administrator help 

    this it not my email address this address is my ******@gmail.com this is me.recovery my back on my profile account.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-12-07T20:35:04+00:00

    detected network cable is not properly plugged in or may be broken plug on ethernet cable on or into computer check windows 7/network &internet D H C P. windows topics desktop starte perdonalization devices drivers windows update recovery backup performance&system failures unable to turn of restricted made is enable by my network administrator help

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