Error the system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation when installing or upgrading to vmware 2.0 on windows 2003

Some people have reported they ran into an issue when trying to upgrade to VMware 2.0 and the error was during the install stating: Error the system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation  when installing.

The best fix or work around is this, it worked for me:

 Click Start -> Control Panel

  1. Open Administrative Tools
  2. Open Local Security Settings
  3. Click Software Restriction Policies
    1. If no software restrictions are defined, right click the Software Restriction Policies node and select New Software Restriction Policy
  4. Double click Enforcement
  5. Select “All users except local administrators”
  6. Click OK
  7. Reboot the machine
  8. Install VMWare 2.0 and it should proceed with no issues.

Good Luck 🙂

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