Tattoo policies are policies not managed by Microsoft. So if you delete the policy the registry settings is stil there. Tattoo policies are normally used if the set provided by Microsoft isn't sufficient enough for managing applications for instance.

Much engineers for instance use a custom build adobe acrobat reader policy to tweak settings. 

A big problem with these kind of policies is when you delete the policy the registry settings remains active. So you have to disable the policy first (resetting the registrykey to 0 ) before deleting the policy. Well I know from expirience you won't most of the time disable a policy first but simply trash it.  Darren Mar-Elia founder of http://www.sdmsoftware.com and Microsoft MVP in Group Policies created the freeware tool "Clean Registry Policy Utility 1.0". which can do delete the registry. We contacted Darren and got the following quote from him. 

"it will see all policies and preferences (tattoos) as long as the local "archive" file still contains them"

You can download the software after filling the registration form.

Go to the registration form

Usage of Clean registry policy utility.

Registry Policy Cleaner Utility, v. 1.0
by SDM Software, Inc. 2007. All rights reserved.

Description: Removes per-user or per-computer policies, preferencesand Software
Restriction Policies from a system.

You must have Admin. or equiv rights on this system for this utility to work

Syntax: cleanregpol [/computer] [/user:{userprofile name}] [/policy] [/preferenc
e] [/srp] [/list]

 Parameters:

Value                    Description

/computer                Targets the per-computer policies or preferences
                         on this machine. NOTE--you must specify at least one
                         of these (/computer or /user) options.

/user:{userprofile name} Targets the per-user policies or preferences
                         of the specified user. If the user has not logged into
                         this system, then you'll receive an error.
                         The user name you enter is the name found in the user
                         profile folder (e.g. enter joeuser if profile
                         is c:\documents and settings\joeuser)

/policy                  If you use this option, then only true policies are
                         removed (or listed).

/preference              If you use this option, then only preferences are
                         removed (or listed).

/srp                     If you use this option, then Software Restriction
                         Policies are removed (or listed)

                         NOTE: You must specifiy at least one
                         (/srp, /policy or /preference) of these options.

/y                       Use this option to not have to confirm deletes

/list                    When this option is specified in conjunction with the
                         others then policies and preferences are only
                         output to the console instead of removed

For more tools and articles (blog) from SMD visit them http://www.sdmsoftware.com/

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