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02-29-2008, 05:13 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Boring, OR
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The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
The more I use Vista, the more I learn to dislike it. I attempted to install a Microsoft application that I had on my old XP machine. It started the installation process, then gave me the following message:
"The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action."
OK, maybe I did something wrong. Cancel everything and start over. Same result. My thoughts at this point: : I AM the friggin administrator and I have NOT set any policies to prevent installing another stupid Microsoft product on my computer!!! 
So, I fired up google. Lo and behold there is a hidden true administrator account.  You won't find that in any quick start guide.  Whatever happened to "it just works?" Oh yea, that's a Mac line. I'm so tempted to go Mac the next time I need a new computer. 
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02-29-2008, 05:15 PM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Casting between the waves where dinner lies waiting
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
YOU are the local administrator. Microsoft is the real administrator. You'll need to appeal to them (including the requisite sacrificial goat) to get that installed.
Good luck.
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02-29-2008, 05:18 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Boring, OR
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Nope - there's a switch and I found it!!!! So, here's to MS
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02-29-2008, 06:12 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Grants Pass, OR
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chromaflage
Nope - there's a switch and I found it!!!! So, here's to MS |
Would you care to share it? PM if needed. I hate Vista with the white hot intensity of 1000 suns. 
Thanks
RF
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02-29-2008, 07:13 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Out in the back forty
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
I hear that Linux doesn't have these problems. Google Ubuntu.
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02-29-2008, 07:48 PM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Installation of software on Ubuntu and most other distributions of linux do require that you put in a password, but at least it tells you that it needs it instead of just telling you that you can't.
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03-01-2008, 07:59 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Out in the back forty
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
I was being a little facetious. Of course Linux installs require a password. Ubuntu and Fedora at least are very good about then prompting you for said password when it's needed, so there isn't any "secret policy" that you run up against. That said, I can't say that I recommend that my 82 year old mother in law try to install it on her own.
The more I work with Linux, the more I prefer it to Windows. MSFT has done a good job of obsoleting my knowledge of their stuff with each new version of Windows, making me less likely to use it.
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03-01-2008, 09:27 AM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Well of COURSE your mother in law shouldn't install it. That's where you come in.  Truthfully, the installation process is about as easy as Windows, and with more options!
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03-01-2008, 09:29 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
I guess I'm the weird one who likes vista. A simple solution to your problem is to "right click" on the application and from the pull down menu select "run as administrator".
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03-01-2008, 09:37 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Lafayette, OR USA
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Father Bill always knows best when it comes to software.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.
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03-01-2008, 09:54 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Burns, Oregon
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
My friend had many issues with vista when he first got his new laptop. I told him he was a geek for getting that and should have gone with getting a Mac. Although, I am still running XP, and until it goes gunny bag on me (which it hasn't in these 2 years) then I will keep it. But once it goes, Mac is the way.
Good luck with Vista. Hope nothing else slips up!
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03-02-2008, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Tigard
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Yup, we have one Vista machine and I'm very close to scrapping it and loading XP. Vista is the description of the view of the cliff you are going to want to throw your computer off of....
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03-02-2008, 10:10 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: woodland Washington
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Micro-soft is selling their new operating system (2007 I believe its called) for 70$ to students with proof of school I.D. Suppose to be way better than vista
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03-02-2008, 10:44 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Corvallis
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRogue
Father Bill always knows best when it comes to software.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.
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LOLOLOLOL You're soo funny!@ 
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03-03-2008, 09:44 AM
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The Mods Must Be Crazy!
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
Quote:
Originally Posted by nobrownline
Micro-soft is selling their new operating system (2007 I believe its called) for 70$ to students with proof of school I.D. Suppose to be way better than vista
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There is no Windows desktop operating system between XP and Vista. Maybe it is Microsoft Office 2007 that is being sold.
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03-03-2008, 03:04 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Newport/Depoe/Tillamook/Salem/Eugene
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Re: The system administrator has set policies to prevent this action.
I have had my Laptop (an HP) with Vista now for 6months. I use it everyday too. Heck, I'm on it now! 
I have never had any installation issues, no lock-up issues, no software conflicts.....nuth'un. 
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