System administrator has set policies to prevent installat..

Roy · External Since: Apr 18, 2007 Posts: 15

Recently I installed a software to an WinXPropSp3 run PC and as it was
not successful as the program did not run properly. I tried to
uninstall it.
One removed from the PC I reinstalled it again but to my surprise the
windows installer failed and got a notice:
The system administrator has set policies to prevent installation.
I tried to do t he command prompt to change the password hoping that
it might work but it failed.
Then I downloaded the windows installer clean up utility and installed
it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
But the problem still persist.
It still say the same:
The system administrator has set policies to prevent installation
Is there a generic method to resolve this issue that I am not aware
of?

TIA

Roy

Don Phillipson · External Since: Jan 09, 2009 Posts: 38

"Roy" <roybasan.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fcb9e2c8-0377-4b04-8372-11e7f3ba9a0f@w37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

> Recently I installed a software to an WinXPropSp3 run PC and as it was
> not successful as the program did not run properly. I tried to
> uninstall it.
> One removed from the PC I reinstalled it again but to my surprise the
> windows installer failed and got a notice:
> The system administrator has set policies to prevent installation.
> I tried to do t he command prompt to change the password hoping that
> it might work but it failed.

This is a prima facie indicator of malware. Most malware
nowadays (1) pretends to be a component of Windows,
(2) is programmed to disallow standard Windows procedures
like uninstallation. The OP did not mention how often he
scans for malware.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Roy · External Since: Apr 18, 2007 Posts: 15

On Oct 28, 9:14 pm, "Don Phillipson" <e....TakeThisOut@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:
> "Roy" <royba....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:fcb9e2c8-0377-4b04-8372-11e7f3ba9a0f@w37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Recently I installed a software to an WinXPropSp3 run PC and as it was
> > not successful as the program did not run properly. I tried to
> > uninstall it.
> > One removed from the PC I reinstalled it again but to my surprise the
> > windows installer failed and got a notice:
> > The system administrator has set policies to prevent installation.
> > I tried to do t he command prompt to change the password hoping that
> > it might work but it failed.
>
> This is a prima facie indicator of malware. Most malware
> nowadays (1) pretends to be a component of Windows,
> (2) is programmed to disallow standard Windows procedures
> like uninstallation. The OP did not mention how often he
> scans for malware.
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)

That PC is protected by Kaspersky Internet Security and is regularly
updated and scanned and so far no malware was found.
I have installed other software in that PC recently( before I did
that latest instalation) and it did not exhibit that peculiarity.