6 Quick Ways to Fix Trusted Sites Greyed Out

No more grey areas with this Group Policy setting

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Published onJuly 8, 2024

published onJuly 8, 2024

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If you have an overzealous antivirus, then you must also have a trusted sites section. However, as you try to add more sites, you may find this option greyed out.

Trusted sites being greyed out is mostly a permissions issue. You’re either running a user account with no administrative privileges or using awork/school account managed by your organization that has enforced access policies.

It is also possible that your security software is blocking you, youruser profile is corruptor the issue is browser-specific. Before any troubleshooting, ensure you’re using an administrator account or try with another browser.

How do I enable trusted sites when it is greyed out?

1. Change your Internet options

2. Reset your browser

If you’re using any other browser, the steps to reset it are somewhat similar. You can also reinstall the browser if your trusted sites option is still greyed out.

3. Disable your antivirus/firewall temporarily

4. Adjust the Group Policy settings

Adding the trusted sites zone to the Group Policy settings opens the access doors and when you go back to your Internet options, the trusted sites option should be active. Forcing a Group Policy update ensures the policy is applied throughout especially if you’re on a domain.

5. Create a new user profile

Once you’re done,make yourself the administrator of this accountthen try accessing the trusted sites option and see if it is still greyed out. If not, you can conclude that your previous user profile was corrupt.

6. Perform a clean boot

Other important settings like yourIE security settings may be greyed outbut we’ve already addressed how to bypass such errors in our detailed article.

Trusted sites are important for enhancing the security of your system and preventing malicious sites from taking over and sneaking in malware. They may be restrictive in some situations and evenprevent you from downloading files but ultimately, they’re for the overall protection of your system.

If the restrictions are cumbersome, you candisable the website not trusted messagewithin your browser if you’re sure the sites you’re visiting are safe. For an extra layer of protection, we recommend you familiarize yourself with some of thebrowser security settings for your online safety.

That’s a wrap from us but we truly hope if the trusted sites option was greyed out, one of our solutions has reactivated it. Also, if you have any other solution that we may have missed out, feel free to drop us a comment down below.

6 Quick Ways to Fix Trusted Sites Greyed Out#

How do I enable trusted sites when it is greyed out?#

1. Change your Internet options#

2. Reset your browser#

3. Disable your antivirus/firewall temporarily#

4. Adjust the Group Policy settings#

5. Create a new user profile#

6. Perform a clean boot#