Ugly 'Open File - Security Warning' when activatingSolved

Any way to dispense with this window the first time a user activates?

http://www.novaderm.com/test/start.png

Granted, they can uncheck the checkbox, but if they don't notice, they're presented with this whenever they activate instead of the pretty registration window 😠

Hey William,

The good news is that when you build your installer your users won't get this message:

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The reason you're getting the message is that your downloaded TurboActivate from your API page and you used the built in unzipper to extract TurboActivate. Windows marks the downloaded zip as "unsafe, downloaded from the internet", and when you use the Windows unzipper it marks all extracted *.exe files as "unsafe, downloaded from the internet".

If you use a 3rd party extractor (7-Zip, WinRAR, etc.) you won't get these messages.

The good news is that when you build your installer these "unsafe, downloaded from the internet" flags won't be inherited when you add TurboActivate to your installer.

In other words, you're the only one who will see this warning box. Your users will just see the TurboActivate window immediately - no warning. So you can just uncheck "Always ask before opening this file" and breath easy. Or just use 7-Zip and never see this warning again with TurboActivate.

Tell me if this helps.

Outstanding.

Thanks Sam.

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