How to remove Chrome policies?

Question

I found some weird policies on my chrome by visiting chrome://policy/ (or about:policy), like ExtensionInstallSources or ExtensionInstallWhitelist. I though it may be from some virus because on other machines with a clean chrome install the policies are empty.

i went to the win 7 registry and removed all the keys/entries that contained the policies names, but when I visit chrome://policy/ they still show up.

I even tried removing the entire \AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\ folder and the unknown extensions I had disappeared but the policies still show up.

How do I remove them?

Solution 1

Policies in Chrome are in the registry.
Is this your company computer? because if you removed it they will put it back again.
Anyway, delete the following keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google

Solution 2

i can't understand your problem, the windows registry locations of chrome policies

Windows registry location:

Software\Policies\Chromium\ExtensionInstallWhitelist 
Software\Policies\Chromium\ExtensionInstallSources 

for more information about all chrome policies go to http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

Solution 3

To completely remove the policy, you need to do the following:

1. Delete the following Windows Registry keys:
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google
   • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google
2. Uninstall Google Chrome
3. Delete the contents of following folder: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
4. Delete the contents of following folder: %WINDIR%\System32\GroupPolicy
5. Delete the contents of following folder: %WINDIR%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers
6. Open the command prompt and run the following command: gpupdate /force
7. Install Google Chrome

Comments

[sancho]

Someone told me to open gpedit.msc and search for google policies there, but I don't have any chrome under Administrative Templates

[Xavierjazz]

Are you sure you don't have a virus?

[flori]

If you ended here but you have a Mac, run defaults delete com.google.Chrome ExtensionInstallWhitelist in the Terminal.app

[sancho]

Already removed them, but when I run chrome and visit chrome://policy, they are still there.

[ITProStuff]

They could be keep coming from one of the extensions installed. Try to remove all the extensions one by one and see which one generate the policy.

[ryenus]

for macOS, see apple.stackexchange.com/a/311435/118414