Windows 10: Locally created files get "This file came from another computer..." warning

I think the title says it all.


I recently took a couple of screenshots using Snip & Sketch. After saving the screenshots and opening their file properties I noticed that they had the "This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer" warning with the "Unblock" checkbox, even though the files were created locally by me.


I would expect this behaviour in a downloaded file, but not a locally-created one.


Why is this?


Thanks,


Leah


PS: Could someone also explain what is meant by "blocked" in this context? Since I'm too lazy to unblock everything I download, I have 1000's of "blocked" files. Every single one of them can be read, written and executed like any other file, as though the block is merely a placebo.

:)

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Generating a .txt based file list in Windows 7

I want to be able to generate a .txt file that lists all the files and folders in a specific folder on my PC, but don't know the name of any programs that do that. Searched on google a bit and came up with this guide, but it's for XP and I can't seem to find some of the folder options to modify the .bat file. Any suggestions? Thanks

http://www.theeldergeek.com/file_list_generator.htm

EDIT: The .bat file will do what I want if it is in the folder I want to do it in, but the option I want to add is having the right click option that it shows.