"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
    2018-02-07T22:15:22+00:00

    I actually had recently uninstalled chrome and started using edge. This is when I received this error message.  I had to reinstall chrome, change the default browser to edge before uninstalling chrome again.  I did not do that previously, I just uninstalled and went. I have had no other problems since doing this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-19T03:50:49+00:00

    I used Edge. Checking that box in programs and features doesn't seem to have any affect on me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-19T02:41:20+00:00

    I thought Microsoft was no longer recommending the use of Internet Explorer, and instead recommends MS Edge.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-18T19:19:23+00:00

    I don`t have the computer anymore and I never solve the problem.

    Mvh. Børge Sørensen

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