"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
    2014-07-10T17:39:28+00:00

    Nice Cobra, is it yours?  GreatLakesCobra.com

    Umm...Ohh...yes...this solution fixed my problem!  Thank you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-06T21:10:00+00:00

    Problems after uninstalling Google Chrome:

    Alin, your hint was very helpful, but after doing the changes on my system some links were suddenly assigned to "microsoft word".

    I went to my browser-settings and reset Mozilla Firefox to my standard browser. This does the same modifications as in your description, but the keys in the registry are all beginning with Firefox (i.e "Firefoxhtm", Firefoxhtml").

    The links in Outlook now can be followed again.

    Did you consider to inform Google about this bug?

    Thank you

    Michael Grosskopf

    Thank you Michael, that worked like a dream! :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-18T22:28:53+00:00

    My issue was NotePad++ as well. It was set as the default for .html in the registry.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-31T18:27:21+00:00

    Thanks! Worked like a charm:)

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