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If you’ve found this article via Google search and you’re frustrated that you can’t install an application because Windows 10 keeps flat out denying you with the error message “This app has been blocked for your protection” before we even dig into how to circumvent the error we want you to take a deep breath and think about where the file came from. RELATED: Beginner Geek: Why is User Account Control Bugging Me? Over the years the engineers at Microsoft have slowly tightened things down, improvement by improvement, and thanks to signed drivers, certificates, user account control settings, and so on there’s a much lower chance these days that you’ll accidentally install malicious software. Historically Windows has been pretty loosey goosey when it comes to file security and the prevention of malicious software attacks. See more info about Applocker at Microsoft Technet.As a general rule you don’t want to do this. Using Applocker allows you to deny access to applications based on publisher, path, or file hash. If this tutorial does not meet your needs, you might be able to use Applocker for your needs. I should mention that if the user is smart enough to rename the program file, they will be able to run the program again.

Please contact your system administrator.” when he tries to run the programs you added. So if I wanted to block two applications, “ itunes.exe” and “ bittorrent.exe“, my Registry Editor would look like this…įrom now on the user will get a message “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Repeat steps 8 and 9 with any additional applications you wish to block, only increase the number used in the “ DWORD (32-bit) Value” each time (2, 3, 4 ,5, etc).Open “ 1” and give it a Value with the application you would like to block, like “ itunes.exe“.Right-click a blank area on the right side and add a new “ DWORD (32-bit) Value” named “ 1“.Select the “ DisallowRun” folder on the left pane.Right-click and add a new “ Key“, also named “ DisallowRun“.Open “ DisallowRun” and give it a Value of “ 1“.

Right-click a blank area on the right side and add a new “ DWORD (32-bit) Value” named “ DisallowRun“.

Type “ regedit“, then press “ Enter“. The Registry Editor appears.

Use the name of the application launching file such as “ itunes.exe“, “ bittorent.exe“, etc.

Add the programs you would like to prevent the user from running to the List of disallowed applications.

Set the policy to “ Enabled“, then select “ Show…”.

Open the policy “ Don’t run specified Windows applications“.

Expand “ User Configuration” > “ Administrative Templates“, then select “ System“.

Type “ gpedit.msc“, then press “ Enter“. The Group Policy Editor appears.

Hold down the Windows Key and press “ R” to bring up the Run dialog box.