How to delete group policy registry keys
(Microsoft Windows XP->System issue)
1. Click "Start", go to "Run", type in "regedit" and press Enter.
2. Locate the following key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft]
Right click on "Microsoft", click "Export"; please name the file as "RegBackup" (without quotation marks) and then save it to the C:\ drive as a backup.
Note: In case we need to undo the modification, we can double click this RegBackup.reg file to restore the registry key.
3. Highlight Microsoft and click "Delete".
4. Please delete the following keys:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
Note: if some keys do not exist, please ignore them.