Windows 7 Not Opening Exe

Posted By admin On 04.05.20

Jul 19, 2017  If you are unable to download any exe file in Windows 10 or even on Windows 7/8/8.1, there may be a problem in your Internet Options or Windows Registry needs to be configured correctly. This error usually occurs when you have disabled downloading of executable files in Internet Options. So let me see if I have this straight - you want to open Windows Explorer. The easy way to do that would be to create a shortcut on the desktop to EXPLORER.EXE - found in C: Windows. So how you could do that would be to press Winkey+R to bring up the RUN box - type in Explorer and enterWindows.

If you are unable to download any exe file in Windows 10 or even on Windows 7/8/8.1, there may be a problem in your Internet Options or Windows Registry needs to be configured correctly.

This error usually occurs when you have disabled downloading of executable files in Internet Options. This can be done manually by any user or it can also be altered automatically through some software. While there can be many other possibilities, these two are the most popular ones. We will talk about fixing unable to download any exe file in Windows 10 using both methods one by one. Let’s start with fixing Internet Options.

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Quick Summary

Fixing unable to download any exe file using Internet Options

May be your Internet Options are not set properly that’s why .exe file downloading is creating an issue. Apply below steps to set Internet Options orderly.

  1. Type Internet Options in the Start Menu and open the first result you get.
  2. Go to Security tab, in Internet Options window, and select Custom Level.
  3. A new window will open. Here find Downloads, expand it further and enable File Download and Font Download.
  4. Scroll below and look for another option with name Launching applications and unsafe files, select the Prompt option for it.
  5. Press Apply and OK. Close all open windows.

Fixing exe files not opening using Windows Registry

  1. Open Registry Editor window by typing regedit.exe in Run dialog/. And go to the following entry.
    “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPloiciesAttachments”.
  2. Here you have to create a new 32-bit DWORD value with name ScanWithAntivirus and set its value to 1, this value will off or disable the scan.

So now any file you will download, antivirus software will not scan it, and your download will not suffer anymore.

Adding a Registry for EXE file extension

  1. Download the following Registry key:
    Reset Exe in Windows Registry
  2. Now go to file where you save it, double-click on it to add this registry into Windows Registry.
  3. A confirmatory window will open to ask you for changes you are going to made in Registry Editor. Press Yes, and here you are done.

After applying the fixes, hopefully your issue of unable to downloading or save any exe file will be resolved. But be sure of what you are downloading, and always download from official websites to avoid viruses with downloads, as you may suffer any issue if the virus comes along with your download files.

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Hi,
No one program can be relied upon to detect and remove all malware. Added that often easy to detect malware
is often accompanied by a much harder to detect and remove payload. So its better to be overly thorough now
than to pay the high price later. Check with these to an extreme overkill point and then run the cleanup only when
you are very sure the system is clean.
These can be done in Safe Mode - repeatedly tap F8 as you boot however you should also run them in
regular Windows when you can.
Download malwarebytes and scan with it, run MRT, and add Prevx to be sure it is gone. (If Rootkits run UnHackMe)
Download - SAVE - go to where you put it - Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN
Malwarebytes - free
Windows 7 Not Opening Exehttp://www.malwarebytes.org/
Run the Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool
Start - type in Search box -> MRT find at top of list - Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN.
You should be getting this tool and its updates via Windows Updates - if needed you can download it here.
Download - SAVE - go to where you put it - Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN
(Then run MRT as above.)
Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool - 32 bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en
Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool - 64 bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495E-94E7-6349F4EFFC74&displaylang=en
also install Prevx to be sure it is all gone.

Exe Programs Not Opening

Download - SAVE - go to where you put it - Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN
Prevx - Home - Free - small, fast, exceptional CLOUD protection, works with other security programs. This is
a scanner only, VERY EFFECTIVE, if it finds something come back here or use Google to see how to remove.
http://www.prevx.com/ <-- information
http://info.prevx.com/downloadcsi.asp <-- download

PCmag - Prevx - Editor's Choice
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346862,00.asp
Try the trial version of Hitman Pro :
Hitman Pro is a second opinion scanner, designed to rescue your computer from malware (viruses, trojans,
rootkits, etc.) that have infected your computer despite all the security measures you have taken (such as
anti virus software, firewalls, etc.).
http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
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If needed here are some online free scanners to help
http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
Other Free online scans
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=antivirus+free+online+scan&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1
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Also do these to cleanup general corruption and repair/replace damaged/missing system files.
Run DiskCleanup - Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup
Start - type this in Search Box -> COMMAND find at top and RIGHT CLICK - RUN AS ADMIN
Enter this at the prompt - sfc /scannow
How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker (SFC.exe) program
generates in Windows Vista cbs.log
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228
Run checkdisk - schedule it to run at next start and then Apply OK your way out then restart.
How to Run Check Disk at Startup in Vista
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-check-disk-chkdsk.html
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If any Rootkits are found use this thread and other suggestions. (Run UnHackMe)
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/a8f665f0-c793-441a-a5b9-54b7e1e7a5a4/
Hope this helps.

Rob - Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right. Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP - Windows and Devices for IT 2010 - current
Windows Insider MVP 2016 - current

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