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I have a fresh Vista install. I made a set of recovery disks so that I could swap out the drive that came with the box for a smaller one. I then recovered onto the smaller drive and proceeded about reinstalling apps--but now I'm having problems with an .msi file--it tells me that "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."
No I didn't! It's exactly the same security as the first time I had the system setup. I can't work out how to make it go away. I have only the one user, and I've been able to install many other programs--I don't know if it's balking because it's a yaddayadda.msi instead of setup.exe.
Does this set of a flag for anyone?
sounds like a job for secpol.msc.
I've only used it a few times myself, but here's a MS page on the command:
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I ended up rolling back to a restore point--which isn't flawless, and seems to have left me unable to uninstall some applications (I guess because the app files are gone because I uninstalled them before the restore), but I want the entries out of my installed programs view.
I have a DVD question -- if I burn a DVD in an HD DVD Burner (like my laptop), will it play on a blu ray player?
A regular DVD? Probably.
it won't be super fancy HD?Blu Ray clear, but it will play?
Not sure where to post this, so tech thread seems best bet of those I subscribe to.
Seems HBO is sending out stop orders to IP addresses that are bit torrenting their content. So, should anyone be doing illegally d/l HBO stuff, you might want to reconsider.
I learned, because or organization got such a letter. Seems one of the visiting artists accidentally still had BitTorrent open in the background. So when she plugged in here at work, she started to seed from our IP. Made for an interesting morning.
I learned, because or organization got such a letter. Seems one of the visiting artists accidentally still had BitTorrent open in the background. So when she plugged in here at work, she started to seed from our IP. Made for an interesting morning.
My boss got one the other week, for torrenting John Adams (which she wasn't) -- best theory is that they traced it to her by IP, because the torrenter was connected to the looniversity-wide wireless at an access point that happened to be registered in her name.
ya, it was for John Adams here too. Office honcho was thinking it was the wi-fi, and hounding me because I give out passwords to visiting artists. It was someone hard plugging in an office. Made me chuckle.
