Guest Quafe24 Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 I'm getting this weird error security warning window pop every time I try to open up a program. It's happening to nearly every program. It didn't start until I followed this guide: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microso ... windows-7/ It doesn't happen to new programs I've installed since then, but it seems that it reset all of my already installed programs or something. Maybe it made winodws think they are web links? Not really sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Are you sure you didn't change more of the registry than the how-to called for? It looks like a registry permissions error. Although I'm not sure how to explain that it is intermittent without some more information. Does this happen with all programs? Even Microsoft ones? Which programs does it not happen with and when were those installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quafe24 Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Finally, was able to get rid of those pop-ups. Was the last place I would expect to look - Internet Explorer Went to: IE, Internet Options > Security > Custom Level > Misc section then I set Launching Applications and unsafe files to Enable. All the pop-ups went away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted September 21, 2010 Report Share Posted September 21, 2010 Glad you were able to solve the problem! I'm assuming you must not use Internet Explorer much. The only downside to this fix is that it will display a security pop-up when using IE, and it makes IE less secure. But if you use Chrome or Firefox, problem solved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexmvp Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 So why does it happen in the first place? was it from that How-to article? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isonuZ Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 lol... that's not an error your system is telling u that a program with an unknown publisher is trying to open... it's not just a w7 thing... all OS(windows) and not just for unknown publishers... just every file! (mostly portables) it's perfectly normal! but i would recommend leaving it! you dnt know when an unwanted program will open on it's own. will save lives(of the computer ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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