Unable to change default search engine in Chrome: This setting is enforced by your administrator


either you can right click on chrome and run as an administrator or follow the following steps.

Problem: the default search engine in Chrome is locked with a message:
This setting is enforced by your administrator
How to unblock it? 
administrator-enforced0000
The search engine change is restricted by group policy.
1. Run the command promt as administrator:

2. Paste each of three strings into console and press Enter:
RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" 
RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" 
gpupdate /force
Wait until two notifications appear:
User Policy update has completed successfully.
Computer Policy update has completed successfully.
After that you can close the command promt window and try to change the search engine in Chrome:

Make google.com as default and press DONE. enjoy

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