1260 This Program is Blocked by Group Policy Plesk: Solution.

Let us take a closer look at 1260 this program is blocked by group policy Plesk error. At Bobcares our Plesk hosting support services will give you a detailed note on how to remove and manage the error.

This Program Is Blocked by Group Policy

Group policy is a network administrator’s tool for deploying user, security, and networking policies to an entire network of computers at the individual machine level. The “This software is blocked by group policy” issue is almost always caused by the affected user allowing the Software Restriction Policy and then forgetting about it. Or it can happen by another application or bug enabling the Software Restriction Policy.

Furthermore, the “Cannot open the application or program” error message will trigger by a program (such as a third-party security program) that is set to prevent particular apps from launching.

Fix “1260 This Program Is Blocked by Group Policy” Error

Method 1: Use Group Policy

If the computer disables the device driver, we can fix the problem by changing the setup. The steps are as follows:

1. To launch the Run dialog, press the Windows + R keys together. Then, to enter the Group Policy window, type gpedit.msc and press OK.
2. Expand System > Administrative Templates > User Configuration. Navigate to and double-click Don’t execute selected Windows applications in the right pane. Then select the Show option.
3. Click OK after removing the target program or application from the prohibited list.

If the method is unable to correct the issue, we can go to the next method.

Method 2: Use Control Panel

This solution involves using Control Panel to resolve the “This program is blocked by group policy” issue or error. Follow the steps given below:

• Open Control Panel and look for Administrative Tools. Double-click Local Security Policy.
• Expand Software Restriction Policies and then click on Enforcement.
• Select all users except local administrators. We must then click Apply and restart the computer.

Then we can see if the error is still present.

Method 3: Use Registry Editor

If we still see the “1260 This program is blocked by group policy” problem, we can utilize Registry Editor to resolve it. We can proceed as follows.

• If we still see the “1260 This program; block by group policy” problem, we can utilize Registry Editor to resolve it. We can proceed as follows.
• Go to the following location and delete everything in the Microsoft folder.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft

1026 This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact the system administrator.(GoDaddy server):

We can also eradicate the error “1026 This program block by group policy. For more information, contact the system administrator.” while hosting the asp.net mvc application published copy to the GoDaddy account. We can solve the issues by removing all of the contents inside the system.codedom tag in web.config file. To do this go to the file and type in the configurations as shown below.

web.config file:

Go to web.config file in the project folder then search for system.codedom tag and removed all the contents inside the system.codedom tag. Next compile it and go to GoDaddy and replace it with old web.config.file.

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?

!---

--

configuration

system.codedom

compilers

compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" 
type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, 
Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, 
Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,

PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701"

 type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:14 /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\"Web\"

/optionInfer+" /

/compilers

/system.codedom

/configuration