[GNC] Installing on Windows 10 (with Defender)

[Peter West]

Thank you all.

I will recommend that Rob join the mailing list. I’m on Mac, but I got a 1-month VMware Fusion copy and a Windows 10 freebie (yes, they do exist), and I tried it myself. Sure enough, I installed and ran the program without a problem.

My next step is to walk him through an install using the screen share facility of hangouts. We’ll see how that goes.

Many thanks.
--
Peter West
pbw at pbw.id.au
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

> On 4 Aug 2020, at 9:50 am, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I also use Gnucash on a couple of installs of Windows 10 Pro and have Windows Defender running.  My update/install process is to download the Gnucash setup.exe, right click on it and display properties and then click the Unblock checkbox and then simply double click on the .exe file and click OK when necessary to allow the install or update to proceed.  My file size on Windows is 141 MB (148,789,209 bytes) and I would expect your downloaded file to be the same.
> 
> I'm with nvsoar on this one and think you need to download the Gnucash setup.exe file again and make sure the download completes ok, then try the re-install again.  Either manually uninstall the currently installed Gnucash or let the new install uninstall the current version for you - it'll prompt you to uninstall the currently installed version.
> 
> Regards David H.
> 
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 04:26, nvsoar <nvsoar at charter.net <mailto:nvsoar at charter.net>> wrote:
> On 08/03/20 08:06, GTI .H wrote:
> > Em seg., 3 de ago. de 2020 às 00:41, Peter West <lists at pbw.id.au <mailto:lists at pbw.id.au>> escreveu:
> >
> >> My brother-in-law in the US (I’m in Oz) tried on my recommendation to
> >> install Gnucash 4.1 from the gnucash.org <http://gnucash.org/> <http://gnucash.org/ <http://gnucash.org/>> site.
> >>
> >> The install was initially blocked by Defender, but he managed to overcome
> >> that. When he tried to run the program, the complaint was about missing
> >> .dll files in C:\Program files (x86)\gnucash\bin\
> >>
> >> As I don’t know about Windows 10, can someone please tell me the way to
> >> perform the install correctly in this case?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> > For many years I installed GnuCahs on Windows 10 with defender enabled
> > using the .exe installation file.
> >
> > I've never had any problems.
> >
> > I'm currently running v4.1 well, and it was the first master update that I
> > haven't noticed any problems with so far.
> >
> > *Congratulations DEVs!*
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > _______________________________________________
> Sounds to me that there is a fault in the downloaded install file. I 
> suggest re-downloading the .exe file; checkg the hash code for accuracy 
> of the downloaded file; and then installing the new download file.
> 
> Do not believe the Defender is problem.  Windows will ask if you really 
> want to install the GnuCash install file.
> All the best, nvsoar
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