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"The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" when uninstalling
  1. 19 May 2007 #1


    Marcus Eriksson Guest

    "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation" when uninstalling

    Hi everyone,



    I'm trying to uninstall one of my applications (Vmware Player in this case)
    but keep getting "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this
    installation" errors. What do I have to do? I am logged on as an
    administrator.

    Regards,
    Marcus


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  2. 19 May 2007 #2


    Mary Guest

    RE: "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this install

    Right click on the uninstall file and choose Run as Administrator. If it
    doesn't have its own uninstall utility, Add/remove programs should ask for
    higher privileges.

    "Marcus Eriksson" wrote:

    > Hi everyone,
    >
    > I'm trying to uninstall one of my applications (Vmware Player in this case)
    > but keep getting "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this
    > installation" errors. What do I have to do? I am logged on as an
    > administrator.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Marcus
    >

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  3. 19 May 2007 #3


    Marcus Eriksson Guest

    Re: "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this install

    It doesn't have an uninstall utility and Add/Remove programs aka "Programs
    and Features" doesn't ask for higher privileges.

    "Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:3528F0EE-B4E0-4049-AC0A-65EB6D6596B7@microsoft.com...
    > Right click on the uninstall file and choose Run as Administrator. If it
    > doesn't have its own uninstall utility, Add/remove programs should ask for
    > higher privileges.
    >
    > "Marcus Eriksson" wrote:
    >
    >> Hi everyone,
    >>
    >> I'm trying to uninstall one of my applications (Vmware Player in this
    >> case)
    >> but keep getting "The system administrator has set policies to prevent
    >> this
    >> installation" errors. What do I have to do? I am logged on as an
    >> administrator.
    >>
    >> Regards,
    >> Marcus
    >>


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