How to disable Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 9?

I need to disable Protected Mode for the Local Intranet in Internet Explorer 9. So I go into Wrench/Internet Options/Security Tab/click on Local Intranet.

The Enable Protected Mode checkbox is grayed out and is checked. On the bottom it states that some settings are managed by your system administrator.

Yes, I am logged into the a domain account, however, I am an admin on my machine and I've tried starting IE as an Administrator. What's more puzzling, is that I logged in as a local user and the checkbox is still disabled and it states that some settings are managed by a sys admin.

I've tried looking around the Group Policy, but couldn't find anything that worked (though this is the first time I used the GP Editor).

How can I disable the Protected Mode for the Local Intranet?

Solution 1:

Have a look in group policy, its under user configuration /or computer configuration --> Administrative template --> WIndows components --> Internet Explorer --> Internet Control panel --> Security page

There just go to zone that you want to set.

Or you can run GP report to see what setting is applied. To do that, open up cmd then type in

gpresult /h gpresult.html

you report will be save in your current directory when you start cmd. Once you have the report, look at the bottom of the page, you will see settings that have been applied.

Here is mine, I've just enable one GP just to test it