Why some shortcuts say "Publisher cannot be verified"

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When service pack 2 came out for Windows XP, I was surprised with the following message when trying to launch applications from the desktop:

It is the result of Microsoft trying to protect users from malicious programs. The message will appear for any shortcut or executable that is hosted on a network share.

The maddening part is when you try to find the answer to this problem. After lots of digging I discovered it is actually an Internet Explorer setting! Yep. Double click shortcuts on the desktop – bam IE settings take effect.

There are two ways to solve this problem. First you could disable the feature totally. If you open the local policy editor by running gpedit.msc at the run window. Dig down to: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Attachment Manager\Inclusion List For Low File Types

Enable it, and add .exe to the list

There is a big security issue with this. Internet Explorer uses these same settings. By changing it you are keeping IE from warning users about running EXE files. It is unfortunate that Microsoft decided to integrate the setting in this way.

The next way I will show you is the preferred way.

First, determine what server the shortcut is hosted on. For our example we will allow only shortcuts that are pointing to server1 to be launched without the warning.

Open Internet Explorer.

Click on tools, then Internet Options. Click on the security tab.

Once you are on this tab. Make sure you first click “Local Intranet”, and then the “Sites” button should light up. Click it.

On the form that is displayed, click advanced

You will be shown a list of sites that are in the “Local Intranet”

To add your server to the list. Type file://server where ‘server’ is the name of your server. We will put server1 here

Click on Add.

Click OK, on the rest of the dialogs to get out of the settings for Internet Explorer.

Now we can create shortcuts that point to that server, and no “Publisher cannot be verified” dialogs will be shown.

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This publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?

This happens when you are trying to run a program which is unfamiliar to your system.

If you do not have the option to uncheck the ‘Always ask before opening this file’ option, there is another way:

You can turn off all of these messages by doing as follows:
Open up internet Explorer
Tools -> Internet options
Click on Security tab
Click on custom level button
Under “Launching applications and unsafe files” click enable

Our problem may have been that the program we were running was located on a network and the computer treated it like a program over the internet. Basically, it didnt like it.

This is just one way to solve this problem on some HP systems. There are probably a hundred ways, but most will be basically the same idea.

Hope this helps.