the system administrator has set policies to prevent this installa

[Guest]

Error: the system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation

This is a problem that I had before and the fix was to clear entries in the
XP registry that were apparently not doing anything, but upon fixing cleared
up the error.

I can't find the thread that specified what to do to the registry and I
suspect that my generic domain controller is reseting this policy.

1) How do I clear the settings in XP to allow software to be installed again
(I am the adminstrator) and

2) What default group policy setting is in Win Server 2003 that is causing
this reset and how do I fix it. In looking at the WS 2003 policies it is not
clear that anything is doing this that needs undoing --- it seems to be
default behaviour. How do I fix it?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

This is an advanced Windows question, you are posting in Windows XP Basics.
You should try another group to get this problem solved.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

This newsgroup is acceptable for questions like this.

 

[Guest]

I did cross post this to a more advanced group. The following solution is a
little hard to find so I'll post it here. The usual cautions about editing
the registry apply -- back the registry up before changing it since a mistake
may result in an unusable machine.

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1. Click Start and then Run, type in "regedit" (without the quotation marks)
and press Enter.


2. Locate the following key by clicking the (+) sign:


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft]


3. Right click on “Microsoft†and click "Delete".


4. Please delete the following keys:


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft]


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy]


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies


Note: If some keys do not exist, please ignore them.


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