Policies prevent installation

[Irwin Gordon]

I'm trying to install mappoint and I get the message "the
system administrator has set policies to prevent this
installation." How and what can I change to allow the
installation? I AM the administrator!)

 

[News Reader]

Have you played with Group policy editor (C:\WINDOWS\system32\gpedit.msc)?
You migh have accidentally set unwanted restrictions. Most of restrictions
are stored following registry branches:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

I'm not sure which policy is restricting your installation. You might find
it with registry monitor (www.sysinternals.com). Just activate regmon and
then try to install your software. Regmon will log all registry access.
Search references to keys containing "Policies". When you find proper
registry setting, just rename or delete the key. For example there could be
key like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\DisableUser
Installs having value 1. You can delete that key, rename it or change the
value to 0

/Nico

 

[Stevenz]

Hi. I'm steven from Malaysia. Me too have such problem. I'm a Windows 98SE user. I uninstalled Microsoft Office 2000 last week and now I'd like to reinstall it. But when I inserted the cd, it returned the msg "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation". I didn't know what to do so I reinstalled my windows. But I still have that problem. I've tried to search for its registry but I couldnt find any. Can anyone help me pls??

I've saved my registry monitor log file. pls click here (right-click, save link as...) to download it. i really need someone to help me.. as it's urgent. thanks a billion first......