Your Registery Settinggs Are Blocked By The Administrator

A machine that I am using gives the above message when you try installing any mew applications, Anyone know how to resolve this?

Ask the administrator of the network... unless this is a standalone machine? Are you logged in as administrator?

It's a standalone machine and it's logged on as Administrator it's actually my friends machine.

check the local group policy.


any setting you set under gpedit apply globally whether or not you are logged in as administrator

you can prevent writing to the registry with gpedit.msc....we do it with machines we ship to our stores.

This is also a trick used by viruses/spyware to prevent you installing antivirus or anti spyware. Hijack this should run and may give you an idea of what you are up against.