Out of curiosity: I would like to know if there is any way to enable a few things on a laptop. I'd like to know how to enable: registry editing, group policy register, command prompt, and task manager. More details in the comment section?

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Ray Dart answered

If the admin HAS blocked access to all those things, then there is nothing you can do about it in Windows itself. This is DoD approved security. 

There ARE bootable Linux disks out there (I have one, curiously created by Microsoft) that will allow you to access the Windows filesystem and change a few things (You can, for instance, blank passwords).

Group policy will of course effectively reinstate them as soon as you boot back into Windows if the machine is part of a domain (or whatever they are calling it this week) on the network.

I don't know how to affect the GP registry when booted into Linux, although I bet there are people out there that do.

Why do you want to do this? Are you trying to play games whilst at work or in school?


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Matthias Schmidt
Matthias Schmidt commented
I probably won't bother accessing these items, if what you say is the case. The reason I want to do this (it's a school laptop) is really just so I can say that I did. The command prompt, if nothing else, would have a purpose for being enabled, though, and that is this; I am in a Java programming class, and the teacher mentioned disappointment in our laptop's inability to access cmd. If I could find a way to enable cmd that the whole class could take advantage of, it may help in our programming endeavors.
So just to be extra clear, I have no malicious M.O. necessarily, merely just a curiosity of whether I could access things the admin disabled. The purpose, for the most part, is sheer enjoyment- not playing games in class or hacking the server. Or crashing the computer. (Not that I haven't already tried to crash it with a 'while' loop...)
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
Why would the teacher be disappointed in the lack of command prompt for a Programming class?

If he's the teacher, and the intention was to use the systems for this purpose, IT would have given him the access his class would need.
You can run many of the programming languages through applications that execute the commands . . . no need to backdoor access to the OS of ANY system . . . unless of course the systems get re-imaged every night . . .
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I'd like to know how to enable registry editing, the group policy register, command prompt, and task manager. In this situation the admin has blocked any 'conventional' means of achieving this. In other words, nothing in my hour(s) of Google searching for how to unlock any of those items has been successful. Nothing. So in my estimation, it will take some sophisticated 'maneuvers' to unlock any of those things.

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Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
Who's Laptop is this?
If it your companies laptop and your a "Restricted User" you do not need access to any of these areas.
What's more, IF this is your companies Laptop, and you are a "Restricted User" trying to gain access to administrative parts of the operating system, it is most likely grounds for immediate termination.
You might want to either consult the employees handbook, review your notes from orientation (especially when IT came in to speak), or call the corporate compliance officer and ask them.
Matthias Schmidt
Matthias Schmidt commented
It's my laptop- a school laptop... I will explained my motives in a comment to Ray Dart's answer. Thanks!
Darren Wolfgang
Darren Wolfgang commented
Group policy has been removed in Windows 10 if you run that Operating system.
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Darren Wolfgang answered

If it's upgraded to Windows 10 , they removed Group policy in Windows 10 Home Edition , Now i believe they have it in Windows 10 Pro but not too sure .

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