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Do you want to open this file? We can't verify who created this file.
Shortcuts to EXEs on the user's desktop give warnings like those shown above and in this tut:
Open File - Security Warning : Unblock File
This also happens with shortcuts to the stock/native calculator app, notepad and other native apps.
Some computers generate the "Do you want to open this file?" warning...
...while others generate the "We can't verify who created this file." warning
...and still others do not generate any warning (per the norm).
You get these warnings if...
...the shortcut is on the user's desktop
...you send a fresh shortcut to the user's desktop from the user's Start Menu
...you send a fresh shortcut to the user's desktop from the public Start Menu
...the UAC is turned on or off.
(These are not UAC warnings - but some posts suggested testing with UAC off.)
You DO NOT get these warnings if...
...the shortcut is on the public desktop
...you use the shortcuts from the user's Start Menu
...you use the shortcuts from the public Start Menu
...the EXEs are opened via Windows (file) Explorer.
Creating a new user profile DOES halt the warnings for that new user.
IE was totally reset while logged into the bad user account and the computer was restarted... still got the warnings.
All user accounts used for this testing are of the admin type.
NTFS and file ownership for the user's desktop look fine. I compared a good computer to a bad one.
I'm not sure how long this has been going on and I don't have any system restore points. These are on corporate imaged boxes. If no solution is found, I'll just create a new profile. But there are several threads in these forums that dead end with no solution for this issue. It would be nice to figure out why this happens and how to fix it.