Installation is forbidden by system policy
- by Frost
Note: I'm posting this here on Superuser as I think the issue is more related to the Windows Installer than the game itself.
My friend is having trouble installing Company of Heroes and CoH: Opposing fronts under Windows 7. A couple of percent into the installation, when the C/C++ runtime is being installed, the install fails with the following message:
An error occured while installing the Windows Installer package "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\...\...\vcredist.msi". Error code 10212:00000659: MsiInstallProductW returned 00000659: This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.
We have tried:
Making sure that any previous installations have been completely removed, including searching and deleting any files/folders/registry entries matching "THQ" (the publisher) and "Relic" (the developer).
Installing into a brand new user account
Running Setup.exe as administrator
Running Compatibility check for Setup.exe, which suggested Windows XP but failed when trying those settings out
Does anyone know what might be the cause of the system policy error?