Lately on my Win10 I'm getting roadblocks in the way of downloads of harmless programs from reputable sites. I'm forced to click through to Allow a download. Example, Multicommander from the Snapfiles site. I've been using Snapfiles for maybe 10 years without this BS. Is there some regedit to fix this?
In app settings have you got it set to only allow install from ms instead of anywhere? When you say blocked by what av, browser or other
I see a download blocked once in awhile but it usually is by Firefox or Windows Security. It appears mostly to affect install files for programs that can be used to make changes to the computer. Haven't had any issue with allowing, yet.
it only happens on *some* exe, maybe 1 out of 3, and it happens on Firefox and Opera-Vivaldi-Chrome. So it isn't about only the Windows Store MS.
As Stated, go to Settings/Apps/Choose Where to get apps and take the drop down arrow and select Anywhere.
Open about:config and set dom.block_download_insecure to false
I wonder if a FF update set this to True.
Disable The PUA-blocking feature, open the Windows Security app. Then go to App & browser control > Reputation-based protection. There you can toggle on or off the PUA-blocking feature.
This should resolve the problem.
If you're files display this in their Properties dialog:
It's due to Windows tacking on a Zone.Identifier alternate data stream.
You can clear this blocking en masse in PowerShell with the following:
With PowerShell open to the directory containing your files:
Code:gci -af | Unblock-File
Or include files in subfolders as well:
Code:gci -af -s | Unblock-File
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