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Windows: Disable “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” Messages

Windows: Disable “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” Messages

By Mitch Bartlett 6 Comments

Disable the warning message that says “The Publisher Could Not Be Verified” when you run certain files in Microsoft Windows.

Note: This tutorial is only valid for version of Windows that contain the Group Policy Editor such as Windows 10 Professional.

Option 1 – Group Policy Editor

  1. Hold the Windows Key, then press “R” to bring up the Run dialog box.
  2. Type “gpedit.msc“, then select “OK“.
  3. Go to “User Configuration” > “Administrative Templates” > “Windows Components” > “Attachment Manager“.
  4. Open the “Inclusion list for moderate risk file types” setting.
  5. Set the policy to “Enabled“, then add “*.exe;” or whatever the file extension you are using to the “Specify high risk extensions” box.
    Inclusion list for high risk file types policy

Option 2 – Registry Tweak

  1. Hold the Windows Key, then press “R” to bring up the Run dialog box.
  2. Type “regedit“, then select “OK“.
  3. Navigate to the following:
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER
    • Software
    • Microsoft
    • Windows
    • CurrentVersion
    • Policies
    • Associations
  4. Look for an entry on the right side for “LowRiskFileTypes“. If it doesn’t exist, you will need to create it. To do so, right-click on “FileSystem” and select “New” > “String Value“. Give the value a name of “LowRiskFileTypes“. Press the “Enter” key when you are done.
  5. Right-click the “LowRiskFileTypes” entry and click “Modify“.
  6. Modify the value by including file extensions, with periods, separated by semi-colons .bat;.exe would add batch and executable files.

This should disable the “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” messages from appearing for that file type in the future.

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Filed Under: Windows Tagged With: win7, Windows 10, Windows 8

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Comments

  1. Louis says

    January 9, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    Cant belive it.. it work thanks…

  2. Bassel says

    September 28, 2019 at 5:19 am

    thank you mate, that was annoying massage

  3. magic says

    October 21, 2018 at 7:42 pm

    Thanks! It worked.

  4. Benjamin Solomon Onuche says

    May 7, 2018 at 6:32 am

    Thanks! It worked.

  5. Aladdine says

    November 1, 2017 at 7:50 am

    this solve my problem.
    thanks,

  6. pardeepbansal says

    August 15, 2017 at 2:52 am

    While running the VB scripting file “filename.vbs”, It navigates to me “View and track your downloads” pop up window n windows 7 and when i try to open it, then it displays error message “The program’s publisher couldn’t be verified. Are you sure you want to run this program”.
    I did all the setting related to LowRiskFileTypes and HighRiskFileTypes in registery settings of computer. But could not help it.

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