Friday, 4 March 2016

Windows Links Toolbar: Open File - Security Warning - Do you want to open this file?

Launching a shortcut from the Links folder displays a security warning:

"Do you want to open this file?"

Name: C:\Users\Username\Favorites\Links\Application.lnk
Publisher: Unknown Publisher
Type: Shortcut

From: C:\Users\Username\Favorites\Links\Application.lnk


To resolve:

Open a command prompt and enter:

icacls "C:\Users\Username\Favorites\Links" /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)M

Replacing Username with the appropriate folder name.

4 comments:

  1. WORKED! I'm sure I tried exactly this 10x but this time it worked. ... could ICACLS and icacls have different results? Anyway, thanks!

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  2. Cancel that! The problem came back with the latest Windoze 10 updates. Running icacls does NOT resolve the problem.

    The following steps worked for me:
    - Rename C:\Users\Username\Favorites\Links to ...Links_old
    - Create a new Links folder
    - Copy all .lnk files from Links_old to Links

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  3. Didn't work for me. You could improve your script by using the %userprofile% env variable.

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