Windows 10: Silly Windows. Edit is NOT Run.

When I right click on a batch file then click EDIT, Windows 10 throws up a warning dialog. "Windows smart screen prevented an unrecognized app from starting."

How do I fix that so that Windows isn't confused between the actions of EDITING and RUNNING a batch file?

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thanks for your help, basically i'm stuffed!

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EDIT: removed expletive
Message Edited by karim on 11-Sep-2006

10:51 AM

 

Have you tried using 'open with' instead of edit ?

 

Open it with a text editor, notepad for instance.

 

Maybe Windows isn't being silly after all. When you select Edit, an editor app will be run. It could be that the default Edit program, Notepad, has been changed to be something else which is the unrecognized app that Windows is complaining about.

Check out this article: How To Change The Edit Application In Windows - gHacks Tech News

 

I don't get Open With, even holding Shift while right clicking. Click Run anyway and it opens as it should in Notepad. So why the kerfluffle with trying to scare the user instead of just opening the file in notepad?

Another 100% pointless thing Microsoft has done to Windows 10 - now how can we get rid of it?

 

Just tried, I can edit any *.bat file without any warning. Maybe because i lowered my Account control settings to "Never Notify". That's for normal Admin account.

 

I want to be notified, about *some* things. Would be nice if it had a "Don't notify me again for this type of file."

 

Where did you get this batch file from? Did you download it? If so, it may well be the file itself that the warning applies to. Right-click on it and select Properties, does it say this file came from another computer and is blocked?

To check that you can edit a batch file of your own without the warning, create a 'New text file' and name it empty.bat. Now try and edit that. If you get the warning here too, then something isn't set up properly.

 

I wonder if it is possible to add file types to smart screen? Surely there is a way to turn off/on smart screen if need be?

 

Maybe the Notepad.exe you have on your system is a Trojan and Windows is trying to warn you about it.

 

It doesn't do that for a .bat file I create, even with the full content of one it complains about copied to it. There's no extra extension Windows is hiding. That's the #1 piece of stupid I always turn off first thing when I install Windows.

The files it's having an unwarranted tizzy over are from Wyse_USB_Imaging_Creator_v1.41.zip which is a utility for creating bootable drives for WYSE thin clients.

A .bat file is nothing but a text file. Opening it to edit should never pop up a warning. It has to be processed by the scripting functions of the OS when running it to do anything.

Would be nice if Smart Screen could be made smarter via the user being able to tell it what sorts of things to STFU about while leaving it paying attention to things that really can be threatening, like running a batch file that could do things you don't want.

 

As I said in post #8, a downloaded file will be marked as 'blocked' which can restrict what you can do with it. If you are sure that it is safe you can unblock it. This is the Properties for a .bat I extracted from a downloaded .zip file. You can see it's currently blocked, as yours probably is. Try unblocking it, just tick the 'unblock' box and click 'Apply'.

 

Smart screen is as smart as Army intelligence is intelligent.