[GNC] set up Gnucash on a new device

[Paul Kroitor]

>From the web I see that this was a known issue with Windows 10 in the past, apparently caused by the file association for .exe files being corrupted, but I don't see reports anywhere for Windows 11. If this was the case, it would presumably happen with other .exe files as well.

Some places suggest resetting all file associations to their defaults, which you could try (but you'd have to recustomize any you had modified). There are some registry fixes (.reg files) floating around to "fix this" but I would take that with a boatload of salt unless you were sure the source was reliable.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor.ca at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Paul Kroitor
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 9:59 AM
To: 'Glenn Fowler' <gfowler1 at outlook.com>; 'David H' <hellvee at gmail.com>
Cc: 'GnuCash users group' <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] set up Gnucash on a new device

The file shows "Application" in the Type column, which is exactly what you would expect from an .exe file if Hide Extensions was on. Thus that aspect seems fine to me.

It looks to me more like Windows 11 is further tightening the control of unsigned executables. Perhaps there's a Windows Setting somewhere that now defaults to the behaviour you're getting, or the manufacturer / local GPO / domain GPO set it to this.

There can be a secondary data stream in downloaded Windows executables that is used to distinguish between trusted and untrusted files. See https://www.howtogeek.com/70012/what-causes-the-file-downloaded-from-the-internet-warning-and-how-can-i-easily-remove-it/ . In the past this issue has simply caused a warning, but they are tightening this up in Win 11.

Failing that, perhaps somehow the executable is really damaged?

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor.ca at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Glenn Fowler
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 8:49 AM
To: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] set up Gnucash on a new device

Good point, I forgot about that.

However, the machine is acting as if it doesn't recognize the extension:
".setup".

Hopefully Christopher can shed some light on it.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:05 AM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glenn
>
> Is it though?  That possibly depends on whether show file extensions 
> is on or off.
>
> Cheers David Halverson
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 at 21:46, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's missing the ".exe* in the file name. Did you save it like that 
>> or did you download it from a different source other than github or sourceforge?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 6:51 AM Christopher Smallman via gnucash-user < 
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to find help with setting up my GnuCash programme on a 
>> > new Windows 11  laptop.
>> >
>> > I have downloaded the correct version for Windows 11 but the exe. 
>> > file will not open. I am being asked to search for an App in the store.
>>  There
>> > is of course no App in the store.         How can I   successfully run
>> the
>> > programme?     Screen shot of the message is attached
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