Windows 8.1 question

VAHillbilly wrote:
Just bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1. Coming from Windows 7 I understand the frustration many have expressed. I have been trying to download Classic Shell to emulate the earlier Windows screen but it is being blocked. The download file is a .exe which apparently 8.1 doesn't like. The laptop has McAfee security but it does not appear to be what is doing the blocking as I tried to download a help app from McAfee and got the same block.

What needs to be modified to allow me to download .exe files from trusted sites? I would like to authorize the .exe download on a case by case basis.

Pretty fair chance the UAC (User Account Control) may be blocking your install.

Is it asking for user name and password?

If so that is UAC and that can be disabled.

See link below (link is Win7 but Win8.1 also has UAC)

UAC Blocking software install

If not asking for User name and password then it maybe the security settings may be set to max for your browser. In this case you could try downloading the file (save file to your PC first) instead of trying to install from the browser.

Once file is on your PC then you can run it to install.

And for the record, I am not impressed with Win8.1 at all.. Spent most of last week beating Win8.1 along with Office 2013 into submission on my new work PC..

Just absolutely retarded the amount of extra steps one must now take to do stupid simple things like printing from Word..

Managed to figure out work arounds for many things that used to be simple in Win7 and below that Win8.1 no longer has..