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Title: Vista Help
Post by: John R on June 13, 2009, 06:48:03 PM

trying to uninstall a program, but keep getting a message that 'the system administator has set policies to prevent this installation'   it's my computer, i am the administrator.  Help me with some steps into the shittiest software microsoft has released.

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: Belexes on June 13, 2009, 09:37:24 PM

Don't ever install Vista on a computer, ever.

Ack. Too late.

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: if_then_else on June 14, 2009, 03:46:04 AM

Quote from: John R on June 13, 2009, 06:48:03 PM

trying to uninstall a program, but keep getting a message that 'the system administator has set policies to prevent this installation'   it's my computer, i am the administrator.  Help me with some steps into the shittiest software microsoft has released.

Try uninstalling the application with administrator privileges (run the uninstaller as admin).

If this doesn't help, there are some registry keys you could change:
http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=8872 (http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=8872)

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: John R on June 14, 2009, 09:20:36 AM

Quote from: if_then_else on June 14, 2009, 03:46:04 AM

Quote from: John R on June 13, 2009, 06:48:03 PM

trying to uninstall a program, but keep getting a message that 'the system administator has set policies to prevent this installation'   it's my computer, i am the administrator.  Help me with some steps into the shittiest software microsoft has released.

Try uninstalling the application with administrator privileges (run the uninstaller as admin).

thanks, how?  i'm running as owner, how to change?

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: if_then_else on June 14, 2009, 12:42:01 PM

Quote from: John R on June 14, 2009, 09:20:36 AM

thanks, how?  i'm running as owner, how to change?

Do right click on the uninstaller and select the option "Run as administrator" from the context menu.
If this doesn't work try the work-around with the registry settings.

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: John R on June 14, 2009, 01:09:06 PM

I went here, at the bottom, and tried the workaround, but continue to get a syntax error when entering the code.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/58473-system-administrator-has-set-policies-prevent-installation.html

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: sparkey on June 15, 2009, 10:43:38 AM

Plug the error into google.  Plug the error into google using quotes.

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: OFOTD on June 15, 2009, 11:26:27 AM

Just disable UAC and try the uninstall again.

http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

Title: Re: Vista Help
Post by: momule on June 15, 2009, 06:44:17 PM

As the others said. Turn UAC off.

another way you can do this is to.
go to start > control panel > user accounts > turn user control on of off.

Then try to uninstall and see if that don't fix your problems.