Internet Explorer 7: Enable/Disable Content Advisor
Posted on Feb 24, 2008 under Internet Explorer Tips | 5 Comments1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Internet Options.
2. Click the Content tab.
3. Click Enable.. to turn Content Advisor on. Jump to step 4.
Click Disable… and enter the password if you wish do turn Content Advisor off. Ignore all following steps.
4. On the Ratings tab of the Content Advisor dialog box, click one of the categories, and then move the slider to use one of the following: None, Limited, or Unrestricted.
5. Repeat Step 4 for additonal categories if you wish to add more.
6. Click the Approved Sites tab and enter the name of a specific site that you want to control access to. Then click Always or Never.
• Always allows users to view the site, even if it’s not in the Content Advisor screening level you’ve set.
• Never means that nobody can visit the site even if it’s acceptable to Content Advisor.
7. When done, click OK, then OK again.
by Arthur, on July 2 2008 @ 6:23 am
Thanks man
by james, on October 13 2008 @ 1:19 am
nice work
by outseeker, on February 10 2009 @ 8:05 pm
If you forget your password and stuff your whole IE7 as my mate did, you can remove the password and reset it this way:
1) Click on Start and choose Run.
2) Type in RegEdit and select OK.
3) Now click on the little plus sign to the left of H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
4) Continue to drill down, always clicking on the plus sign at the left of the named key, through Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version and Policies.
5) Now click on the Ratings folder.
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6) In the right pane of the RegEdit window, you’ll see an icon called Key. Click on it and press Delete.
7) Next, choose Registry and then Exit to exit RegEdit. You’ve just deleted your original Content Advisor password.
9) Choose View and then Internet Options (or Options for version 3.x). For IE 5 or greater, Click on Tools, Internet Options.
10) Click on the Content tab and click on Disable. When asked for a password, don’t enter anything; just click on OK. This will disable Content Advisor because there’s no longer a password.
*Courtesy of pchell.com
by Mike Hostage, on May 26 2009 @ 4:55 pm
I have a peculuar problem and hope you can help, or perhaps steer me to someone who can. I enabled C.A. last year and entered a half dozen sites to be blocked. I now want to access those sites but CA refuses to let them go. Regardless of whether I “remove” sites from the list, or “disable” CA entirely, all the sites I listed originally are still blocked. It’s like a program from hell!! Have you ever heard of this condition before?
I’m stumped and would sure appreciate some advice.
Thanks,
Mike
by biziguy, on June 7 2009 @ 6:06 am
Hello Mike,
Is it CA Internet Security Suite that you are talking about? Are you talking about the CA (Computer Associates) Parental Control Software? If your answer is ‘Yes’, then you may Uninstall the CA Parental Control software from your computer.
1. Go to Start –> Control Panel –> Add/Remove programs.
2. Highlight CA Internet Suite and click Remove. (Later it will give you a list of products to be removed. Give a check next to CA Parental Controls and click Next / Uninstall.
3. You will be prompted to enter the CA Parental Password.
4. Key in the Site override password and click next.
5. You will be asked to reboot. That’s it.
Hope this helps…