"Failed to take control of destination" error

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"Failed to take control of destination" error #42

Closed zdat closed 3 years ago

zdat commented 3 years ago

After going to Help > Acquire ADMX Files I get a "System.Windows.Forms" error: "Failed to take control of destination".

This happens during the "Unpacking MSI..." stage.

Any help? Thanks.

Fleex255 commented 3 years ago

Hmm, installing ADMX files appears to work for me on a fresh Windows 10 2004 installation. Which Windows version do you have? Could you double-check that you are logged on as an administrator? (Policy Plus will only ask to elevate if you are.) Are you trying to download the ADMX files to the default location or to somewhere else?

zdat commented 3 years ago

Using Windows 7 Home - Lots of changes to the services and the scheduled tasks etc. on it. Default location from an admin account. (It asks to run as administrator when I open it.)

Fleex255 commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the details. There were indeed some problems here, which should be fixed in https://github.com/Fleex255/PolicyPlus/commit/a67e5d826571bcd38ea9a2c9c9fe8a9866b83b53. At your convenience, please try the updated dev build and let me know if that works for you.

zdat commented 3 years ago

Yes, this worked. Just posted a new issue though about something that randomly happened today.