"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
    2017-12-15T22:24:19+00:00

    Try going to control panel under programs and features, turn windows features on and off and check the internet explorer box. This worked for me when my links in Outlook did not work, may also work with Excel.

        Hello David;

       Thank you for replying to my post.

      I did what you explained me above,  In  Control Panel of computer,  under programs and features, under windows features turn on  or off,  internet explorer 11 box  was already checked, when I uncheck it, it is giving me message, "Turning off Internet Explorer might affect other windows features and programs installed on   your computer, including default settings, Do you want to continue " Yes, or no, I am clicking on No, because I DO NOT want to take risk.

     Were you getting same following message?

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

    Now what might be another solution ?

      THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-15T21:00:35+00:00

    Hello Sir/madam;

         My name is Mitul Parikh.

        I created 61 worksheets in 1 Excel 2013 workbook, I created hyperlinks for first 4 worksheets , though  there are several worksheets which are mostly blank and I need to practice Excel  formulas & functions  from 1 book that I purchased.  but, it is giving me following error message.

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

    Can anybody PLEASE tell me how to solve  above hyperlink problem in Excel 2013 ?

    PLEASE email me at ******@yahoo.com.

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-30T17:44:41+00:00

    This is what worked for me. In control panel under programs and features, I selected turn windows features on and off, and checked the box Internet Explorer 11, and my problem was solved.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-30T15:19:56+00:00

    This does not work for Windows 10, or you do not have IE as your browser or you dont have another computer to import a registry key from.  SO, what can I do ...

    This is something Microsoft did and needs to provide a fix for ANY browser and if this is our only computer!  REALLY?

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