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.
Resolving the Issue Using Group Policy Editor
Unfortunately, this option is only available to Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise users, Home users can skip this section.
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.
Adjust Your Data Sharing Usage
Now, this method can actually be performed by Windows 10 Home users, so you can read this one.
- Open the Start menu and click on Settings.
- Next, click on Privacy.
- Now, click on Diagnostics & feedback.
- Then, if it isn’t already, click on Optional diagnostic data, this used to be labeled as Full. As implied, this will send back significantly more data for Windows to analyze.
- Next, click on Required diagnostic data, this used to be labeled Basic.
Removing Work or School Accounts to Fix the Error
If the steps above didn’t solve your problem, then you might need to delete some accounts associated with your school or work.
- Again, click on the Start menu and select Settings.
- Next, click on Accounts.
- Now, click on Access work or school.
- Then, select any accounts associated with your work or school and remove it. Note, you’ll want to make sure the accounts aren’t still needed and that any data you need is backed up.
Fixing Windows 10 Bugs
Unfortunately, errors and bugs occur in any OS, especially Windows 10. But, with something like upwards of 40 million lines of code, it’s understandable that things can go wrong.
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30 thoughts on “How to Fix the “Some Settings Are Managed By Your Organization” Bug in Windows 10”
Open Gpedit.msc, navigate to Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Configure Automatic Updates
Change from Enabled to Not Configured
There is no fixed way to find the registry key which is causing the message in Settings app. It might be a DWORD or String value somewhere lying in registry which is forcing Windows 10 to show the message in Settings app.
Most of the time, “Some settings are managed by your organization” message shows on Settings -> Update & Security -> Windows Update page. If you are also getting the message on Windows Update page and want to remove it, following steps will help you:
1. Open Registry Editor using regedit command in RUN dialog box or search box.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
3. If you find any key under WindowsUpdate key, delete it.
Also check in right-side pane, if you find any DWORD, String, etc, delete it.
Restart your computer and the “Some settings are managed by your organization” message will disappear from Windows Update page in Settings.
NOTE: If you see the message on Personalization pages such as Background, Colors, Lock Screen, Themes, Fonts, etc, then you’ll need to check following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization
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
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