[xiphos-users] xiphos install on win10: "windows protected your pc"

glkphineas glkphineas at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 08:07:38 MST 2017


Might this work?

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-windows-smartscreen-in-windows-10/

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>
wrote:

> I've got 4.0.6 installed on a win7 and on my desktop win10 at work.  No
> sweat.
>
> Last evening, I was going to install it on my wife's win10 laptop. When I
> double-click the installer, I get a blue box that says, "Windows protected
> your PC," refuses to run the file, offers a single button at the bottom of
> the blue box, "Don't Run." No other option.  I can click the Don't Run or I
> can click the upper-right corner X, both of which make it go away.
>
> Apparently this is something called "smartscreen," that appeared first in
> win8. But it wasn't active on this machine before, because 4.0.5 is
> installed. Some update must have brought it along for the ride.
>
> I've surfed for ways to stop this, but all the articles discuss it as win8
> and all references to the control panel aren't the same.
>
> Can someone tell me how to unlock this beast?
>
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