Windows 11 says “Some of these settings are managed by your organization” even though my PC isn't connected to an organization

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Windows 11 says “Some of these settings are managed by your organization” even though my PC isn't connected to an organization

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Hi, I'm using Windows 11 Pro Education on my personal laptop. In Settings → Personalization → Lock screen, I see the message:

“Some of these settings are managed by your organization.”

However, under Settings → Accounts → Access work or school, there are no connected work or school accounts.

I also ran dsregcmd /status as Administrator, and it shows:

AzureAdJoined      : NO
EnterpriseJoined   : NO
DomainJoined       : NO
WorkplaceJoined    : NO

I also generated a Group Policy report with gpresult /h. It shows:

Domain: Local

Settings: No settings defined

Applied GPOs: Local Group Policy [LocalGPO]

No organization/domain GPOs

I checked the Registry and found several keys under:

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

but most appear to contain no configured values. For example, I found:

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx
    MdmHosts    REG_SZ    ^(?:[^\/]*)\.MANAGE[^\.]*\.(MICROSOFT\.COM|MICROSOFTONLINE\.CN)$

and:

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Defender\Policy Manager

but no values were shown under the latter.

My question is: What is causing Windows to display “Some of these settings are managed by your organization” on the Lock screen settings, and how can I safely remove the message without deleting legitimate Windows policies?

I would appreciate help identifying the specific policy or Registry setting responsible.

Answer

I've seen a few scenarios when this can happen.

Computer is enrolled in intune or joined in Azure/Entra.
You are using KMS license.
Some manufacturer apps or third party antivirus can also cause this.
Group policies issue.

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I will have you do this first. If the following doesn't work, we will check further for the other scenarios I listed.

First, can you please go to Settings > Accounts > Access Work or School, and make sure there's no work/school email address listed there. We know it is not joined in Azure, but just want to make sure there's no intune enrollment either.

If not, or if nothing is listed there, please type cmd in the search on the taskbar and make sure you select "Run As Administrator" to launch Command Prompt.

Then run the following command and hit enter:

gpupdate /force /boot

Restart the computer and see if it helps. If not, launch Command Prompt in Admin mode again and run the following commands, one at a time. Not all of them will go through completely, or value can be found, and that's ok. Once finished, restart the computer again and see if it works.

reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /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\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v DisableAntiSpyware
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

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