exe files with a generic icon + error when clicked on


  1. amos
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    exe files with a generic icon + error when clicked on


    Hi

    I'm installing a new computer/Windows 10 pro and I have a weird behavior.

    What can cause the problem in the attached?
    It seems that extracting (winrar) the files into the downloads/desktop folder is causing this.
    If I extract the file into c:\portables\ folder (for example), then it's ok.

    I'm confused.

    - - - Updated - - -

    OK, installed Windows 10 again and apparently the user that is created as part of the installation, even though he's in the admin group, is lack of admin rights.



    I enabled the administrator user and now I'm working with it and all is good so assuming this is my home/personal computer, my question would be:



    1. Should I just keep using this administrator user and delete/remove the other one?

    2. Somehow understand how to make the other admin user a real admin user with admin rights and disable the administrator user.



    Any thoughts?

    Thanks
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  3. Try3
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    amos said:
    1. Should I just keep using this administrator user and delete/remove the other one?
    2. Somehow understand how to make the other admin user a real admin user with admin rights and disable the administrator user.
    Before changing anything else, examine the Permissions of the file concerned. It cannot reasonably be installed with the constraints you have encountered.
    - That's assuming that the Administrator account is allowed to read the Permissions.
    - If even the Administrator cannot get into this file's Permissions then I would suspect either a serious fault during installation or a deliberate attempt at file corruption of the source file as a means of planting malware on your computer. [i.e. the Filezilla download file was attacked and corrupted]
    Change Permissions - TenForumsTutorials
    Change Owner of File, Folder, Drive, or Registry Key - TenForumsTutorials

    When you have resolved this problem, you should
    1 Disable Administrator again. It is not intended for routine use and it should not, if at all possible, be used whilst connected to a network because it does not stop hackers getting in behind your back.
    2 The 'other admin user' is probably already a 'a real admin user with admin rights'. In Windows, admin users are signed in as standard users and only exert their admin privileges when they are used deliberately to authorise a specific task through what is routinely called the 'Admin prompt'. That's how Windows is designed.
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  4. amos
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    Thank you for replying

    1. With the administrator user everything is working fine and as expected.

    2. With the other admin user which I created as part of the installation, I copied to application folder from winrar to downloads or portables folder (filezilla was just an example). When copying finishes, the filezille.exe icon is generic and its properties->security looks like the screenshot I put here. When I go to subfolders I get a popup saying that I currently don't have permissions to it (just read, why? that user created those folders) and clicking continue grants me that permissions BUT when opening filezilla.exe, it doesn't have permissions to write its settings files. All I wrote here, doesn't happen with the administrator user.

    3. Wherever I look on the other admin user, all seems ok regarding its group - administrators, so I don't understand the source of this strange behavior.

    4. I know that UAC window you wrote about, that's what I had in my previous computer but here it's something else.

    5. I wish I knew how to resolve my problem and to disable the administrator account but I have no idea how to make the other administrator user behave like one.
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  6. Try3
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    here it's something else
    Not one of these by any chance?

    1 This is created by a faulty admin account - the yes button is greyed out or entirely missing
    exe files with a generic icon + error when clicked on-admin-consentui-yes-greyed-out.png

    2 This is created by a standard user account
    exe files with a generic icon + error when clicked on-nonadmin-credentialui-cleaned.png

    Note that your para 2 tells me that there must be at least one additional problem.

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  7. amos
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    Yes, after some investigation, your direction is correct.
    The problem was that user administrator is creating files/folders so my user don't have access to them.
    Thanks
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