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This restriction allows you to prevent users from adding and removing software applications with Windows Installer.

Open your Registry and find the key below.

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called 'DisableMSI' using the settings below.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.


(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
DisableMSI REG_DWORD 0x00000002 (2)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer


Settings:
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer]
Name: DisableMSI
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0 = default, 1 = admin only, 2 = disabled)

You may want to save this key and edit it in Notepad when you want to re-enable/disable the feature, save back to disk then do a Merge back into the Registry.