I'm running Windows 10 Pro with the latest updates. Just today I started having an issue with a piece of legacy software: Wise (used to make installers). When I try to run it, I get the below error:
"This app has been blocked for your Protection" "An administrator has blocked you from running this app."
Running the app as admin does not resolve the issue.
After doing some poking around, I believe the issue is the certificate. It is SHA-1, expired 10 years ago, and is marked "This certificate has been revoked by its certification authority".
That is all well and good, except this vendor is effectively gone. So I can't get a new version of the software. How do I run this program in the mean time?
Edit: Running the program through an admin command prompt seems to work. Is that the only option?
I've had a similar issue with a signed executable having its certificate revoked, so here's what I did to unsign the executable using the Widnows SDK tool SignTool.exe.
Download the .iso file from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk
Mount the .iso, browse to Installers directory and install this component: Windows SDK Signing Tools-x86_en-us.msi (it's like 7 MB installed and you don't need to install the whole SDK, only that component)
CMD as admin, navigate to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.18362.0\x64
Run this (for your .exe): signtool.exe remove /s "Path to file you want to un-sign here"
(e.g. signtool.exe remove /s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Altiris\Wise\WiseClient.exe")
Executable should now be unsigned.
Ref: How to install SignTool.exe for Windows 10 and
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/signtool
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I was trying to install Node.js node-v14.15.1-x64 on PC with Windows 10 Pro 64-bit OS, but then I found that the problem appears with any .exe and .msi
If I'm trying to run installer with/without administrator, I got only endless blue loading circle icon on my screen without any error report or process in Task manager:
Hanged icon with cursor arrow does not disappears, even if I will wait for a hour, to stop it, I've to restart computer
I've followed Stein Åsmul answer, which I'm forced keep unmarked, because it seems like nothing helps yet:
I've re-download installation media but now I see that this happens happens to all installers.
I've tried turn off Windows Defender Firewall and Security Antivirus.
with C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.exe value is exefile, and exefile folder value is Application, I have tried to change it with "%1"%*
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion in ProgrmFilesDir value is C:\Program Files and in ProgramFiles Dir (x86) is C:\Program Files (x86)
With attempt to C:\WINDOWS\system32>assoc .exe=exefile something also went wrong here, because OS freeze, and I was forced to reboot
C:\WINDOWS\system32>msiexec.exe /i :\Users\User\Desktop\New folder (1)\pycharm-community-2020.2.3.exe /L*v C:\Your.log opens Windows Installers, which describes Display, Install, Restart and Logging Options, but I'm not sure, how to use it, to find out with this issue
Solution:
After removing AVScanner.ini form C:\ directory problem disappeared and installation works fine
Also I have to note, that I will mark answer by Stein Åsmul because I found it useful in similar possible situation, even if it was not solution in this particular case
Any advice, guide or example would be helpful
Overall: Do you have a screenshot? That almost sounds like a Windows Smartscreen issue?
Here are some generic setup.exe debugging suggestions:
Shortened setup.exe problem list
Long setup.exe problem list.
Specific Suggestions: 1) Re-download the installation media first of all. 2) Then reboot and disable anti-virus scanners and try to install. 3) You should also enable logging and look at the log for clues. 4) Try to install as a different admin users. 5) Finally test on a virtual or another machine to verify the integrity of the setup file.
Quick Logging:
msiexec.exe /i C:\Path\Your.msi /L*v C:\Your.log
General WiX and setup links (section: "Generic Tricks? - Consumer issues")
Smartscreen issues
Node.js - Cannot Install it is showing an error because of .msi
I use the command(cmd) "lxrun /uninstall /full /y" to uninstall my sublinux in my Windows 10.Then,I use the cmd "lxrun /install /y" to reinstall,but there is problem I encountered as flows:
- Beta features -
This will install Ubuntu distributed by Canonical on Windows Under the terms of its license, see this link:
https://aka.ms/uowterms
Downloading from the Windows app store ...
Error: 0x80072f7d
Downloading from the Windows app store ...
Error: 0x80072f7d
Downloading from the Windows app store ...
Error: 0x80072f7d
Can not be downloaded from the Windows app store. Please check the network connection.
I ensure that other applications include Windows App Stor can access the Internet,becase I tried and successed just now.
so,I have no idea and has anyone ever encountered this problem?
I have easily installed Node.js before on Macs and other PCs, but the PC I have now at work restricts the running of .msi files.
Is there a way to manually install and configure node.js and npm on Windows 7? I have access to Powershell.
Installing nodejs (and npm) on a Windows 7 machine does not require any "magic" if you have Admin access on the target machine and do not care about setting up the expected "uninstall", various Windows performance counters, event tracing or Start menu entries.
To manually install from an existing installation on one machine to another machine, simply
Copy the entire contents of your "\Program Files\nodejs" and "\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm" directories as well as the "\Users\USERNAME\.npmrc" file to the same directories on target machine. (Replace USERNAME with your own Windows login name.)
Edit the "\Users\USERNAME\.npmrc" file to replace the source username with the username on the target machine.
Add "C:\Program Files\nodejs" and "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\npm" to your PATH.
If you'd like to manually install direct from the MSI (without an existing installation to work from), get Scott Willeke's excellent lessmsi program, which allows you to extract all the files from any msi archive and discover all the actions taken by the Windows Installer, such as required edits to the Register, etc. (Though for nodejs, you'll only need to edit the Registry to add the proper keys to uninstall it automagically.)
I am attempting to download an older version of Cygwin (1.7.16) in order to compile an open source project (Dummynet - windows port).
The only way i found of doing so is by using a project known as Cygwin Time Machine.
In order to use this i downloaded the cygwin 1.7 installer from 'ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/setup/1.7/setup-1.7.exe', and when prompted for a download site, added 'ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2012/08/20/222043'. However, the download fails with the following error :
Unable to get setup-2.ini from
ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2012/08/20/222043
Im looking for help in getting past this error, or any other alternative way of installing Cywgin 1.7.16 (Aug 20, 2012).
The Admin at Cygwin Time Machine was kind enough to point me to the solution. The issue can be resolved by downloading the cygwin setup exe from cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe and starting it with the -X option. Once started, one may choose any cygwin 1.7.* snapshot url from the cygwin time machine site and add that as the mirror to download and install cygwin from.
I'm temporarily stuck on a Windows machine on which I have no administrator privileges. I would like to get node.js "installed" in a directory without using an installer, which requires elevation. On the node.js site, I don't see this distribution option.
Is anyone aware of a file-based (zip, self-extracting exe, etc) download that I can use to run node.js without using an installer on a Windows machine? Is there a way to run the installer without administrator elevation?
OK, it turns out that the EXE download for Windows is all that node.js needs to run. I had thought that that was an exe for doing an installation. Just running the downloaded .exe works.