pcguy9441
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To hopefully alleviate system instability I recently downloaded a fresh copy of Win10 on top of the 5 yr old OS on "C" . Works great for the most part. But, now in trying to reinstall just a few needed apps and drivers (virtually all apps survived the reinstall) I get the error below.
Googling this I get from 3 to 5 ways to fix it, none of which work! All the "fixes" assume that somewhere in one of the many ways that Windows allows us to restrict an app install (or run), a group policy has been initiated. NONE have. Nothing is enabled in this regard. Zip nada. I'm trying to reinstall the Epson 550V scanner driver and it won't let me. Had same error with Olympus Studio 2, but enabling the Windows master admin (God) account, it let me install it but still won't with the Epson driver. It's a winzip folder, BTW, so it appears it's Zip it doesn't like. I do not have the app, but that's never stopped me in the past.
Suggestions? Maybe a new bug/gotcha with a fully fresh Win10 with all updates?

Googling this I get from 3 to 5 ways to fix it, none of which work! All the "fixes" assume that somewhere in one of the many ways that Windows allows us to restrict an app install (or run), a group policy has been initiated. NONE have. Nothing is enabled in this regard. Zip nada. I'm trying to reinstall the Epson 550V scanner driver and it won't let me. Had same error with Olympus Studio 2, but enabling the Windows master admin (God) account, it let me install it but still won't with the Epson driver. It's a winzip folder, BTW, so it appears it's Zip it doesn't like. I do not have the app, but that's never stopped me in the past.
Suggestions? Maybe a new bug/gotcha with a fully fresh Win10 with all updates?

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