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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

IDM Open File Security Warning Unknown Publisher Solved

Internet download manager (IDM) is the most used download manager of the windows operating system. It supports all the major browser available in market. Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance. It also have resume, schedule, queue, auto shutdown and other options. The simple graphical user interface with a large number of features makes it a prefect download manager.
         But a large number of user who uses the IDM suffers from the annoying open file security warning which pops up on every start up of the system and whenever the user opens up IDM. The pop-up does have a tick box saying "Always ask before opening this file", unchecking which does not have any effect whatsoever. Here is a snapshot of the problem.

Steps To Solve Open File Security Warning Unknown Publisher :

Step 1: First open up the Run by pressing window+R, after that type gpedit.msc inside and click on OK to open up the Local Group Policy Editor which is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that provides a single user interface through which all the settings of Local Group Policy objects can be managed. 
Step 2: In Local Group Policy Editor select the Administrative Templates present under the User configuration. A list of folder will appear in front of as shown below. 
Step 3: Double click on the Windows Component(seventh option) from the list of folders present in Administrative Template.
Step 4: Now open up the Attachment Manager by double clicking on it. A list of options will appear in front of you which are used to manage the file attachments. 
Step 5: Alright after opening up a lot of folder in Local Group Policy Editor we have finally reached the option which we gonna edit. Double click on the Inclusion list of moderate risk files to open up it up. Select the Enable option from the three radio button present at the top to enable the Inclusion list of moderate risk files. In the Options present in the middle type the .exe as shown below and click on OK to save the changes. That's all you will not be annoyed by the IDM or any other .exe file type open file security warning unknown publisher.

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