This guide explains how to “unlock” any Windows setting that is blocked by the message “Some settings are hidden or managed by your organization” (such as changing the wallpaper, for example) and to remove these restrictions that are in place by default on the VPS Cloud / VPS Lite server offering.

Reset local group policy settings

To reset all local group policy settings to their default values:

1. Open the command prompt as an administrator.

2. Enter the following commands:

   RD /S /Q "%windir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
   RD /S /Q "%windir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
   gpupdate /force

3. Restart the machine.