How to disable XP SP2 Security Prompt

It doesn´t have any real useful function for me and even worse, for some reason it sometimes takes up to 2 minutes for this prompt to appear, does anyone have any idea why? Might be some conflict or something? I´m talking about this dialog window:

http://images6.pictiger.com/thumbs/80/6ab65077d22d28f07d48fa204ca36180.th.png

 

Hallo.

Heb je geprobeerd om 'altijd waarschuwen voordat dit bestand wordt geopend' af te vinken?

 

Wilbertnl you better talk English before you get blocked. Just kidding. But that won´t fix the problem, I want to disable it globally, not per app.

Btw, you´re a Dutchman living in the USA? Interesting. Also, we have almost the exact number of posts! Funny.

 

Hello,
You do the following:
Turn the Windows firewall off.
I never see those prompts on any of my XP installs - and I do nothing special except turn Windows firewall off...
Mrk

 

It takes some time to appear in Vista as well, it verifies the publisher's signature. To disable it do:

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download]
"CheckExeSignatures"="no"
"RunInvalidSignatures"=dword:00000001

 

I get that warning when opening downloaded .bmp files , but not any files that could actually cause damage ie .exe's etc.
from the details in the code box, I assume that reg key is targeted at .exe's?

FWIW, .bmp is associated with a program, which windows either does, or does not remember, depending on the weather.

 

Hi,

I think I´m going to need help with this one, how do I exactly change this setting? I´m using Registrar Lite but perhaps this can be done more easily with RegAlyzer.

@ Argus Tuft, seems like something is wrong on your system.

@ Mrkvonic, that didn´t work. But strange that you don´t get to see it. This thing is really starting to get on my nerves, especially because it freezes certain windows while searching for the signature.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download469.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/regalyzer/

 

Hello,
I think the Windows is afraid of me...
Mrk

 

Hi,

I have upgraded to IE7 and luckily, I see that it has a feature to turn this off (in the Zone security settings). But now I get a warning on startup that I need to fix my security settings ("security risk, not safe to browse"), how can I turn this off?