Whenever I download an .exe file from the internet and then try to launch this file, the annoying popup shows asking whether I want to run this file or cancel. Of course I want to run… There’s also a check box “Always ask before running this file”, of course checked…<\/p>\n
This feature was always annoying me to death… What a stupid, paranoiac approach to\u00a0 “protect” the user. The original idea was to prevent running the automatically downloaded “qwerytweru.exe” ? Or to prevent my mom running the “unsafe” flashplayer.exe ??<\/p>\n
For those annoyed to death here’s a solution:<\/p>\n
1. Click Start \u2192 Run. Type gpedit.msc<\/strong> (BTW it’s the best tweaking tool in Windows… Attention, those who have “Home Premium” edition Windows, sorry, this tool isn’t available so stop reading here…)<\/p>\n 2. Go to User Configuration \u2192 Administrative Templates \u2192 Windows Components \u2192 Attachment Manager<\/strong> and double click “Do not preserve zone information in file attachments<\/strong>“. Normally it’s on “Not configured”. Set to “Enabled”. No further tricks needed, just close the window. Any .exe file you download from now on should run without asking questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever I download an .exe file from the internet and then try to launch this file, the annoying popup shows asking whether I want to run this file or cancel. Of course I want to run… There’s also a check box “Always ask before running this file”, of course checked… This feature was always annoying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icefront.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}