Like its predecessors, Windows 10 can be configured by organizations to limit user access to certain settings and features. From a consumer standpoint, you may have encountered one of these business-specific options when, during the Windows 10 upgrade process, you were asked “who owns this PC?” with either you or your organization as the possible answers.
Unfortunately, certain bugs and settings can incorrectly configure your own PC as being locked down by a nonexistent organization, which limits your access to certain settings in the operating system.
If you’re experiencing this issue, you’ll notice in several locations (primarily in the Settings app) that “Some settings are managed by your organization.” If your Windows 10 PC belongs only to you (that is, you have admin control of your PC), here’s how you can reconfigure Windows 10 to fix the “Some settings are managed by your organization” issue.
The solution to this problem can be found in the Group Policy Editor, but you’ll need to launch this utility with administrative privileges. To do so, click the Start Menu and type gpedit.msc. The top result should be the Local Group Policy Editor as shown in the screenshot below.
Right-click on the gpedit.msc result and select Run as Administrator. In the Group Policy Editor, use the hierarchical list of options on the left side of the window to navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection and Preview Builds.
With Data Collection and Preview Builds selected, you’ll see an option labeled Allow Telemetry on the right side of the window. Double-click it to change its options.
At the top of the Allow Telemetry options window, click Enabled. Don’t freak out, privacy advocates. This is a temporary change and we’ll soon turn Windows 10 telemetry back off.
With Telemetry Enabled, click the drop-down box in the Options section and choose 3 – Full.
Click OK to save your changes and close the window. Next, double-click Allow Telemetry in the Group Policy Editor again to bring the same configuration window back up.
This time, select Not Configured instead of “Enabled.” Finally, click OK to save the change and close the window. You can also now quit the Group Policy Editor.
Now head back to a location where you previously encountered the “Some settings are managed by your organization” message. You should see that the message is now gone and that you have full access to your Windows 10 settings. Note, however, that this fix is intended for individually-owned consumer PCs.
If your Windows 10 PC or license is owned by your company or organization (or was initially set up that way), there will be other settings which will continue to limit your access to certain functions and you shouldn’t change Group Policy settings without consulting your IT administrator.
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30 thoughts on “How to Fix the "Some Settings Are Managed By Your Organization" Bug in Windows 10”
I still see the ‘managed by your org’ message in windows update. :(
Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > windows update. Enable “Do not include drivers with windows updates” then set it back to not configured. Worked for me :-)
You’re welcome.
For one week I try to fix the settings on my new home leptop a HP bought with Win 10 Home installed. After a couple of days I gave up and bought Win 10Pro and upgraded. It was terrible the Home version! I have another personal leptop but that has Win 10 Pro and all setting were possible to be changed , modify etc.
However with the new leptop after one week struggling and reading everywhere on the net all advices how to proceed, I still have a nr of troubles :
1) I can not put them to work together in a Home group option which dissapered in Win 10 but it was very usefull in Win 7. They can see each other but I am not allowed to “see” the files and share. I am running them as administrator o and I have tried all the advices I read from Internet, nothing works.
2) I fight with “some settings are managed by your organization” which is still there even after upgrading to Win 10 Pro , even after using the RegEdit instruction above and Group Policy .. is still there and I can not modify the Sync settings which I beleive will allow me to work with the laptops as in homework group. I create another user without Microsft account which to my surprise doesn’t have access to anything…
I am stuck and fed-up with Win 10 .. I bought the Product Key new , I worked to set it up hard.. I was hoping to have the two leptop in a small group so that would be easier and not needed to use the USB to transfer files etc. And still I didn’t arrive to connect my old printer BROTHER …
Please advise what else , what solution I can do more so thatit can solve my problems.
This worked great! Only problem I came across was that I didn’t have the ‘gpedit.msc’ file but with a little browsing I downloaded it and followed the instructions here. Also, at first it didn’t seem to work, but I just had to restart my pc for it to take effect.
FYI my home machine info……
I have a 64 bit OS with a x64-based processor on my HP home PC.
I am running Windows 10 Pro, Version 1803, OS build 17134.48
which was recently upgraded by Windows on 6th May 2018
even i try this method but didn’t work.
please help.
Any suggestions (a year later)?
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data and Preview Builds. Not sure if that’s obvious to everyone else or not.
I also tried Sam Gilliam’s fix and it didn’t work either.
Sill looking for a solution.
RUN>gpedit.msc>USER CONFIGURATION>SYSTEM>GROUP POLICY
AND I DISABLED ALL SETTINGS THEN ENABLED THEM THEN CHOSE NOT CONFIGURED AGAIN
PROBLEM SOLVED FOR ME
RUN>gpedit.msc>USERNFIGURATION>SYSTEM>GROUP POLICY
AND I DISABLED ALL SETTINGS THEN ENABLED THEM THEN CHOSE NOT CONFIGURED AGAIN
PROBLEM SOLVED FOR ME
I’ve tried various methods, GPO and registry tweaks, listed here and elsewhere and had no success with any of them. I did find something else that did work, at least on my Win 10 Pro laptop.
Go into Classic Control Panel, select “System”, “Advanced system settings”, then under “System Properties, Computer Name”, Select “Network ID” and select “This is a home computer, not part of a business network”, and select “Next”. You will be prompted to “Finish” and that’s it. So far as I can tell, depending on build, where and how Win 10 was installed, or other astronomical events, Windows 10 automatically sets itself up as if in a domain.
That did two things for me, it got rid of the “Some things …” message and ungrayed the box allowing additional options for how updates are delivered. The catch is that you now have to set up a Home Network if you have not already done so.
This does not stop MS’s automatic updates but it does offer some breathing room.
I’m now looking into somewhat civilized ways to better control auto updating and “maintenance”, which basically looks like a script of some sort, rather like bulldozing a forest to cut down one tree.
Best of luck!
It Worked