Re: Refresh HKLM Key from Group Policy

I beleive that you have to reboot to refresh HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

You can kill and restart explorer.exe to refresh HKEY_CURRENT_USER without
rebooting.

But you can try this anyway.

To kill explorer and restart it.

Open the Task Manager...
Ctrl + Shift + Escape | Click on the Processes tab | Locate and highlight
explorer.exe | Right click explorer.exe | Click End Process | Click
Yes to the Task Manager Warning that pops up | Click File on the Toolbar |
Click New Task (Run...) | Type in: explorer | Click OK

End Process on explorer.exe will make your Desktop, Taskbar and all programs
disappear. This can be startling. Restarting explorer will bring
everything back.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:2BFEAD9C-A294-42E5-BB9F-25F966E102B1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
B. Cheung <BCheung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hi There,

I am wondering is there a way to refresh the HKLM registry key -
specifically this one -- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies -- without
logging off ? I have a software restriction in place disabling MSN
Messenger. I also have a reg file to enable it. But once enabled, the
only way for the software policy to NOT take place is to log off.
Hitting the F5 key does nothing either.

Ben

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