Error: the system administrator has set policies to prevent this

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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!
 
It is probably not a group policy causing the problem. Logon as a domain
user that is in the local administrators or power users group when
installing software. Domain admins are by default. Regular domain users may
or may not be. You may have to add your domain account to either the power
users or administrators group on the local computer. Which group will depend
on the software you are installing. With most software power users will
suffice.
 
Kerry,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the error occurs in both the domain
administrator's account and the local administrator's account.

So I dug deep and finally found the solution given me under support incident
SRZ060220001033 by Tony Ma ([email protected]). Guess these
incidents are unpublished, but it works, so here it is:

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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.

======END Tony's Solution

Now the question remains how did this happen again on the same system? The
first two keys were restored by something. The last was not there. Details:
The first key was restored, but no meaningful values were set. The second
key cluster, group policy, was set and was pointing to my domain server.

Either a self-repairing change to the registry, a repairing update from the
domain controller, or an automatic XP software update did the deed (I have
automatic Windows Update set up).

For the windows update preventer a script at work set it at login and I had
to write a script to reset it -- hope I don't have to do that here! But I
now will keep my notes on this handy, because somebody's "protecting" me in a
rather annoying way.
 
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