"Your organization's policies are preventing us..."

Anonymous
2012-07-26T16:29:34+00:00

"Your organization's policies are preventing us from completing this action for you. For more info, please contact your help desk."

Well, I AM my help desk as this is my personal laptop. I'm not sure what I did to have this get set up somewhere, the only things I've ever messed with were the OEM Background picture when logging on and to disable the autorun features to prevent installation of malware from infected usb drives that I interact with on campus frequently giving me enough time to scan them before activating them.

I tried going back into the registry and setting the policy for autorun to be unconfigured again as it was default and it didn't fix the problem.

I get that error message when using various MS Office products, 2010 and 2013, when trying to go to an external link in a document/program or when trying to hyperlink within a document (e.g. Table of Contents --> Page 23...) But I know it isn't specifically office, or at least I think.

Thoughts on what I can do?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-21T12:51:57+00:00

    Re-setting Outlook and Firefox (or your browser of choice) as default Mail app and Web browser in Control Panel > Default Programs solved it for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-15T15:49:15+00:00

    Are you ef... kidding me?!

    I am a user, I need click->fix->next->finish; if I want to write code, enter into register files, I am saving my money and I use Linux+Thunderbird...

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-04T19:57:39+00:00

    There is no answer here. However, I found the solution. Thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-05-04T19:12:30+00:00

    I am getting this message when I tried opening emails etc hOW DO i FIX THIS

    "Your organization's policies are preventing us from completing this action for you. For more info, please contact your help desk."

    T.V.RAMDIAL

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