install forbidden by system policy

[drlinberto]

Hi there guys,

I knew there must have been a forum for this great OS!!
in general all my software installs went great, no conflicts or anything like incompatible applications.
Just one problem with installing textpad, when i try to enter my license information the application is trying to access some registration and the system policy prevents that.
Please help me solve this.

see the attached image

HKEY_USERS\.Deafult\Software\Helios\TextPad 5\License

 

[jav]

First of all, Are you administrator on your PC?

 

[drlinberto]

Of course I am
I re checked just to make sure

 

[jav]

ok.

Right clicking Textpad apliication (exe file) and click "run as Administrator"
And try now.

 

[drlinberto]

when i look at my user in user management I see i am an administrator.
but hey , I was just thinking of it, when i installed windows , I did not set up an administrator password, so how can i login as admin ?

 

[jav]

If didn't help.

1. Press Start rb:
2. Write "local Security Policy"
3. And give me screenshot of those to circled options.
4. Look through 2 options cicled with red. can you see anything that can block installation

Note: second circled option "configure rule enforcement" is under Applocker
Note2: you may not have Applocker if you are not running Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate

when i look at my user in user management I see i am an administrator.
but hey , I was just thinking of it, when i installed windows , I did not set up an administrator password, so how can i login as admin ?

If you have created only one account then you are administrator.
But UAC downgrades you to level of Standart account in some case for security reasons. and "run as admin" is function to bypass UAC

 

[drlinberto]

here, I added 2 attachments here..

Thanks for the help mate !!

 

[jav]

1. hmm.. Can you double click "enforcement" from first screenshot and give screnshot of it?

2. This one may work (but do first and post screenshot, and I will tell you if you need to do)
Press Start
Write gpedit.msc, and then click OK.
Go to Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates--> Windows Components-->Windows Installer and then find Prohibit non-administrators from applying vendor signed updates.
Double click it and click Disabled and then ok.

 

[drlinberto]

Enforcement

 

[jav]

1. So, you do have Software restriction Policy enabled? (I wonder why if you use only one account :sarc: ) Have you enabled it yourself?

2. Have you tried "run as Admin"

 

[drlinberto]

I haven't done it my self, I installed the system my self and only one user exists.
when i rightclick the exe there is an option called run as different user and there I have to give username and pass and as i did not set the admin pass I cannot try the thing you said.

when i right click , should i have an option called "Run as Admin" ? I do not

 

[drlinberto]

check out these 2 images, this is the users I have currently

 

[drlinberto]

I also tried what you said with the vendor signed updates but it did not work :-(

 

[drlinberto]

Thank you !#!#

it helped, I mean, I went to the users management, enabled Admin, set a password to it and than used the run as admin option and it worked like a charm !


Thank you my friend!

 

[jav]

Thank you !#!#

it helped, I mean, I went to the users management, enabled Admin, set a password to it and than used the run as admin option and it worked like a charm !


Thank you my friend!

Glad you have it workin
Sorry for late, answer.
Guests.... had to get out of comp

 

[kayakee]

Thank you folks.

This also resolve my issue (Run as administrator)

 

[mariotr]

I have the same problem but...

I use a W7 64x Professionnal. I tried all actions in this thread, but I already received the message (install forbidden by ...) with all installation software that use Windows Installer.

Using gpedit.msc I open all Windows installer policies.

Do you have an other idea?

 

[mentalscout]

I resolved this exact issue by disabling Security Settings-->Local Policies-->Security Options-->User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode. Not sure if it was the correct thing to do, but I wan able to finally license my Textpad install.

 

[jav]

I resolved this exact issue by disabling Security Settings-->Local Policies-->Security Options-->User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode. Not sure if it was the correct thing to do, but I wan able to finally license my Textpad install.

Actually you don't have to.

And as I have previously mentioned one should be able to solve this problem by right clicking Textpad.exe and choosing "run as administrator" even if you are administrator.

Textpad forum confirms it aswell: Community :: View topic - Installing license fails in Vista.

The workaround you provided will also work as you are granting yourself full administrative token. However it is not recommended from security point of view.
As far as I can see, you can actually safely re-enable that option after you have completed licensing.

 

[Soeren]

Hi! I had the exact same problem and it was resolved by performing the license update after starting TextPad.exe with "Run as administrator".