Windows 11 saying "Some of these settings are managed by your organization" even though there is no organization connected

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For some reason, my system keeps telling me that some settings are managed by my organization, but I don't have any organization accounts connected, plus I'm on Windows 11 Home single-language, and it doesn't let me send diagnostic data for my W.I.P build too.

specs: Edition Windows 11 Home Single Language

Version 22H2

Installed on ‎20-‎05-‎2022

OS build 22623.1095

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22638.1000.0

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Hello ev3tec7,

Good day! I'm John and I'll be happy to assist you today. I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you.

Please try this if it helps.

Press Windows Key+R to open run then type: cmd

Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to run it as administrator

Copy and paste each command one at a time then press Enter.

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f

reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /f

Please proceed to the next commands in case you receive any errors.

When all commands have been entered. Restart your computer then check if the issue persists.

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor

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Hello ev3tec7,

Thank you for updating me with that information. Glad to hear the issue has been resolved regarding the organization problem.

Please check and try Shawn Brink's tutorial guide and make sure it is enabled using each method in the link below.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-diagnostic...

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor

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2024-07-26T12:00:54+00:00

Your reply should have been the preface for the accepted solution on this post because deleting all those registry is total overkill. It might fix the problem, but most of those entries being deleted will have nothing to do with the reason for the lock screen settings being greyed out and deleting them may have unintended side effects.

In my case the reason the lock screen settings were greyed out was simply because I had applied a registry tweak in the past to disable the first part of the lock screen so that it automatically starts on the password field. However, a side effect of that was that I could no longer customise the background due to the "Some of these settings are managed by your organisation." message.

In order to edit those settings I just had to update that one registry that I set previously, restart my laptop, then I could edit my lock screen background again before putting the registry tweak back.

If anyone did the same as me, it's the DWORD at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization called NoLockScreen. Set it to 1 to disable the first part of the lock screen, or set it to 0 (or delete it) to bring it back. While it is set to 1 you can't edit your lock screen, though it takes a restart of your PC for the restriction on editing the background to be applied/lifted.
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2024-07-26T15:45:17+00:00

... because deleting all those registry is total overkill. It might fix the problem, but most of those entries being deleted will have nothing to do with the reason ...

That's correct. Applying the 'answer' doesn't fix anything, because there's nothing that needs fixing. I guess people figure that if they can't see the message, that mysterious organization is gone.
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2024-07-26T23:53:41+00:00

> Applying the 'answer' doesn't fix anything, because there's nothing that needs fixing.

Absolutely right. All this does is hack the alert mechanism.

It 'works' - but a full guide which both explains WHICH registry entries to remove - and WHY that's important - is acceptable from the MS support community, and would lead to an update which prevents the issue from occurring.

A true resolution would be an update from Microsoft which addresses the root cause without extremely high-risk user intervention. Let's face it - fewer than 10% of users should be allowed to even access the registry.

Best guesses at likely cause:

Faulty permissions assigned at OS initialization based upon HW profile.

Faulty code which incorrectly attributes an org as a temporary user on first boot.

Faulty dependencies when user customizes their machine to exclude bloat.

NOT RESOLVED. ISSUE OCCURS OOB ON CERTAIN MACHINES AT FIRST BOOT OF WIN11.
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