{"id":1543,"date":"2014-03-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/03\/11\/how-do-i-disable-zone-markers-for-downloaded-files-so-that-explorer-stops-being-a-nag-about-running-downloaded-files-and-just-trusts-me-to-do-the-right-thing\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T07:00:00","slug":"how-do-i-disable-zone-markers-for-downloaded-files-so-that-explorer-stops-being-a-nag-about-running-downloaded-files-and-just-trusts-me-to-do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140311-00\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"How do I disable zone markers for downloaded files, so that Explorer stops being a nag about running downloaded files and just trusts me to do the right thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Little Program about manipulating the zone identifier for downloaded files appears to have struck a nerve with commenter Tess, who <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2013\/11\/04\/10463035.aspx#10463265\"> launched into some sort of diatribe about how Microsoft should stop being a busybody and warning users about opening files that they downloaded<\/a>.\n You are welcome to disable the feature if it offends you so.\n In the Group Policy editor, go to User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Attachment Manager, and enable <i>Do not preserve zone information in file attachments<\/i>.\n For bonus points, you can set a bunch of other policies to make your computer even more dangerous. <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/883260\"> Here&#8217;s a list of them<\/a>. For example, if your goal is to create the most insecure deployment of Internet Explorer, you can set <i>Inclusion list for moderate risk file types<\/i> and <i>Inclusion list for low risk file types<\/i> both to <code>*.*<\/code>, and then on top of that, set <i>Launching applications and unsafe files<\/i> to <i>Enabled (not secure)<\/i> so that Internet Explorer never warns you about running anything.<\/p>\n<p> Welcome to 1995. Enjoy your stay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Little Program about manipulating the zone identifier for downloaded files appears to have struck a nerve with commenter Tess, who launched into some sort of diatribe about how Microsoft should stop being a busybody and warning users about opening files that they downloaded. You are welcome to disable the feature if it offends you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My Little Program about manipulating the zone identifier for downloaded files appears to have struck a nerve with commenter Tess, who launched into some sort of diatribe about how Microsoft should stop being a busybody and warning users about opening files that they downloaded. You are welcome to disable the feature if it offends you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}