Go back into your Registry editor, it sill still be on the same page
Click System Guard on the left.
Right click the 'Managed' key in the right pane and delete it.
Restart your PC to apply that change.
Firmware protection off and button grayed out
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I enabled firmware protection via Group Policy editor, but when I went to windows security the firmware protection button was off and grayed out with a message "This setting is managed by your administrator."
I want the fix and turn on Firmware protection
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Anonymous
2024-01-08T11:40:26+00:00 Sir I already did that but after a restart the firmware protection option disappeared
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DaveM121 933.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor2024-01-08T11:45:17+00:00 If you have made that change then most likely your system hardware does not support Firmware Protection or Hyper-V is not enabled, check the System Requirements on this link:
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Anonymous
2024-01-08T11:48:02+00:00 Sir my hyper v is not enabled a message is there that a hypervisor has been detected features required for Hyper V will not be displayed
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DaveM121 933.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2024-01-08T11:50:47+00:00 Do you have any VM (virtual machine) created on your PC or are you running any type of Emulator installed on your PC?