ok, im about stumped. The LAN settings button is disabled on some of our PC's shared account.

I thought it was Group Policy Setting at first.
-ran user groups as admin
-added the user to the admin group
-still unable to edit the setting
-ran group pol and nothing was configured for internet explorer

I then thought it was some sly registry editing
-User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer
-one of the Dwords was set to 0 changed that to 1
-nothing still




(what the arrow is pointing is greyed out/ disabled...you can't click on it)

2/14/2012 6:30:37 AM

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
DWORD: Proxy (Change from 1 --> 0)
DWORD: Connection Settings (Change from 1 --> 0)

Just a cut and paste from a google search. Not sure of your IE version.

[Edited on February 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM. Reason : -]

2/14/2012 8:24:00 AM

Pain in the ass but i got it. Had to edit two Policy settings for ie - hklm and hkcu

2/14/2012 3:21:12 PM

^ in the registry or gpedit.msc?

2/14/2012 3:32:16 PM

^registry IMO

AFAIK the OP might not even have one of those editions of Windows that includes its own Group Policy Editor

2/14/2012 5:26:21 PM

when i logged in as the user i could not run regedit because its a restricted user on the machine.

I could right click and "run as admin" but that had no affect because im editing the admin's registry then.

I had to add the user to admin group on the machine. re-log in. run regedit, run down HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel and HKCU variant, there was a DWORD set "connection settings", both variants were set to 1, so i changed both to 0.

Removed the user from admin group when done.

2/14/2012 6:02:40 PM

nice

2/15/2012 8:28:00 AM