nRF Connect unable to complete installation of SDKs

I'm stuck trying to set my nRF Connect extension on VSC. I've followed the guide for the installation but I'm reaching a wall. Every time I try to install a given SDK I have the same result (see pictures) I end up having an error.

It seems a common thing because I've searched for it for some time finding several posts of similar errors as mine I've tried the different pipelines in the blogs but I none work for me.

I've tried to use a previous version of nRF Connect, installing from GitHub repository, unstalling and installing the nRF extension in vsc, tried to extract manually the sdk files, even to rename the python.ext in appdata.
The one thing I haven't tried yet is to deactivate the firewall because I'm not able to do so as the computer is from my enterprise and I don't have permissions to do so.

Images of the last try:


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  • I do not have read/write access to windows registry as I'm using the enterprise laptop.
    Here's the result from the command: 

    PS C:\Users\OriolTelleriaSerrano>  nrfutil sdk-manager list --all-fields
    SDK Type  SDK Version  SDK Status     Toolchain Status  Directory
    nrf       v3.3.1       Installed      Installed         C:\ncs\v3.3.1
    nrf       v3.3.0       Installed      Installed         C:\ncs\v3.3.0
    nrf       v3.2.2       Not installed  Installed         
    nrf       v3.2.1       Installed      Installed         C:\ncs\v3.2.1

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