How to Stop Windows 7 Popup – “The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this?”

When you try to run an installer in Windows 7 such as an .exe there is a warning message say that the program does not have a digital signature (From Microsoft, Expensive!) and it may be harmful.

This is really annoying especially if you are such that, what you open is always safe. If you want to stop this message appering every time read on to find the tweak.

Instructions

Security Warning
  • Open Internet Explorer, Open the Tools Menu and Internet Options
  • Click Custom Level under the Security Tab
Custom Level
  • Change the Launching Applications and Unsafe Files to Enable
Launching Applications and Unsafe Files

After this Internet Explorer will show an error message (about:SecurityRisk) when you open it. So you will probably want to do the following

Disable The Information Bar

  • Edit the Registry (If you don’t know how to then DON’T this can seriously break your computer
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Security\
(DWORD)DisableSecuritySettingsCheck (Set to 1)

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8 Comments (Newest on top)

  1. Rabid Zombie says:
    08/10/2010 at 4:47 am

    Yes, this worked, but you went too far with asking people to edit the registry in the end. All I had to do was click the message to open the security notification center, then click ‘don’t show these warnings’ and the problem was solved more easily, while still leaving the notification thing active if it needed to actually tell me something important.

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  2. rbatoon says:
    02/03/2011 at 6:19 pm

    Don’t listen to Rabid Zombie; His suggestion doesn’t work for Win 7; Besides you posted the warning and if anyone is too stupid not to backup registry before making this type of change…well remove them from the gene pool.

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  3. James says:
    22/04/2011 at 3:33 am

    Here’s a more secure method.

    ———————–
    Open up internet Explorer
    Tools -> Internet options
    Click on Security tab
    Click Trusted sites > “Sites” Button
    Type in your share drive Letter: Ex) Z:\ -> “Add” Button
    (Make sure “Require server verification is not checked)
    Close button
    Click on “Custom Level” button
    Under “Launching applications and unsafe files” click enable (Under Miscellaneous (Press m… it’s a shortcut))
    ————————-

    That way you still have your barrier for sites with ad aware popups.

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