How To Fix “Managed by Your Organization” in Chrome (Windows)

Does your Google Chrome browser suddenly start showing “Your browser is managed by your organization” notice? Are you not able to change some settings on your Chrome? Then this tutorial will help you to know what is “Your browser is managed by your organization” text appearing on the chrome and how to remove it.

What is “Managed by Your Organization” Notice On Chrome?

The “Managed by your organization” is a Chrome policy tool that is a legitimate service. It allows the administrators to create new policies for the users on how the chrome should be operated including the restrictions, extensions to be installed, browsing and so on. By creating the policies the organizations manage the chrome settings for their users. In this case, the users of the computer may see the “Managed by your organization” tool to their Chrome’s menu that appears after the “Help” . If any users try to make any changes to the Chrome browser that is listed in the policy then a message appears stating “Managed by your organization”.

Why Do You See “Managed by your organization” Text On Your Chrome Browser?

Now, why do the home users or any normal user may see this text on their personal computers or laptops?

• REASON 1# :-The system you are using is a part of any organization that has created chrome policies.
• REASON 2# :- The “Managed by your organization” tool is being deceptively used by scammers or malware distributors to install fake extensions on the browser. Both the Mac and Windows users may be affected by this method. Once the extensions are added by using this method, then users may not be able to remove it from the “Add and Remove Extensions” menu. When they try to do so, the chrome may throw a “Your browser is managed by your organization” message.

Thus, if you see “Your browser is managed by your organization” message, it means your computer or browser is already infected with some malicious program.

But your computer system is truly a personal one, then you notice some symptoms on your computer like:

• The “Managed by your organization” text appears on the main menu of Chrome browser.
• Unknown extension active without your consent;
• Homepage, new tab and search engine address changed mysteriously;
• Ads, pop-ups, banners and sponsored links appears everywhere;
• Some elements of the website visiting may not load up properly;
• Frequent redirection is caused while browsing;
• Fake pop-ups appear warning for software updates, flash player updates, virus alerts so on;

These are the symptoms of browser or system being controlled by some unwanted programs.

The Fix For “Managed by your organization” On Chrome Windows

To remove “Managed by your organization” notice from your chrome browser on Windows OS, you need to disable or remove the “Managed by your organization” message from the Google Chrome Settings. And then try removing the fake extensions and then go for resetting the Chrome browser. Other solution is to delete the policies created for the Google Chrome from the Registry Editor.

Fix 1#:

To disable the “Managed by your organization” notice from the Google Chrome using Chrome Settings:

1. Open your Google Chrome browser and copy and paste “chrome://flags/” in address bar(without quotes) and press Enter. This will open advanced configuration page for Chrome.

2. Now type managed in the “Search flags” box.

3. To disable the “Managed by your organization” message in Chrome, click on the drop-down and select Disabled option.

4. Google Chrome will prompt to restart the browser. You need to click on the “Relaunch now” button to do so.
That’s it.

Now re-launch your Google Chrome browser, the “Managed by your organization” should be disappear now.

Fix 2#:

You can remove the policies created in the Google Chrome via Registry Editor in Windows OS.

To do this follow the steps:

1. To open the Registry Editor, press win+R key from your keyboard;
2. Now Type “regedit” (without quotes) and press Enter;
3. This will open the Registry Editor Window.
4. Now locate the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome”;
   

   Policies created in the Google Chrome via Registry Editor Windows

5. Remove the policies from the left menu appearing;
6. Also check for the forced extensions installed on the chrome browser;
7. Remove the unwanted extensions under the ExtensionInForcedInstallList;
   

   Remove InforcedExtensions via Registry Editor

8. Now close the window and restart your Computer.

This should help you to get rid of “Managed by your organization” notice from your Chrome browser.

Fix 3#:

Deleting Group Policies Using Command prompt 

1. Open Command Prompt by pressing Win+ R at the same time and type “cmd”and then press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Enter‘(admin mode);
2. It will open the Command prompt window in administrative mode, now you need to type the following commands to delete the group policies on your computer. Execute the commands one by one.

   RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers"
   RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"

3. After executing the above commands, you need to update the policy settings to make them successful. To do this, type the following command:

    gpupdate /force

Now, all the group policies is been deleted and updated in the registry. Now you need to reset the Google Chrome browser for a fresh start of the browsing.

It is important to remove cache, temp files and other unwanted programs or malware that may have installed in the meantime. Thus you need to scan your system to remove all the such traces from the system.

1. Use SpyHunter 5 To Scan and Remove unwanted Extensions
2. Use HitmanPro To Scan and Remove unwanted Extensions