FIX: Your network administrator has applied a Group Policy that prevents installation

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A Group Policy for Google Chrome on a personal device?

In this tutorial I will explain how you can solve the error message below.
for context, the error occurs when you try to install Google Chrome.

There are two tutorials:

Both are about the same steps, but as the second already describes it contains screenshots.

Go to Start
Search for Registry Editor
Copy and paste the following path:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update
Open REDG_DWORD: UpdateDefault
Change the value from 0 to 1
Click OK

If that didn’t work, try to remove the Update key completely.

Go to Start and search for Registry Editor

Copy and paste the following path in the explorer:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update

FIX: Your network administrator has applied a Group Policy that prevents installation.

Double click UpdateDefault and modify the 0 to 1.
Click OK.

Now try installing Google Chrome again.
If it still does not work, try to Delete the Update Registry Key.

This post is from answers.microsoft.com.
I have expanded the existing tutorial with screenshots.

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