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05-14-2008
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| Newbie  Join Date: May 2008 Vista Home Premium 64bit
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| Vista stop me opening a .exe file Quick question (hopefully): How do I stop Vista from stopping me from opening my own files...? Basically, I'm trying to use Audacity, but a friend has a version with an alternative UI, and he kindly sent his version to me, to see if it would make a difference, but I couldn't move/open the .exe file in the .zip he sent, because Vista deemed it potentially harmful. |
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05-14-2008
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| Member    Join Date: Apr 2008 Ultimate SP1 x64 & x86
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Location: Paris | Re: Vista stop me opening a .exe file When you say 'Vista deemed it potentially harmful' are you talking about Defender? If you have an AV installed on your system, right click the zip to check if there are no viruses/malware in it. |
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05-16-2008
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| Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Vista 64bit
Posts: 194
Location: Canada   | Re: Vista stop me opening a .exe file Right click the file and select Properties, sometimes there is a "Block" placed on files coming from other computers and you can Unblock it from there. Example of Blocked file and "Unblock" in File Properties. Last edited by Chappy; 05-18-2008 at 08:43 PM. |
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05-17-2008
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| Engineer  Join Date: Mar 2008 windows vista ultimate
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Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka  | Re: Vista stop me opening a .exe file Hi, If vista is blocking you from running a Exe u first need to check wheter you have any AV or any ani-spy where you first need to check whether they are blocking this software from running. If not try right clicking on the file and select run as adminitrator. Hope this helps Cheers !!
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