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    WSarmsys
    AskWoody Lounger
    February 4, 2010 at 4:32 am #466383

    In URL fields, I have plenty of links like c:Program Filesabc.exe. When clicking it, it always pop up a Microsoft Office dialog window warning of trustworthy source. How to suppress this annoying popup?
    Thanks.
    Armstrong

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    • WSLeif
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 4, 2010 at 3:05 pm #1208026
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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 5, 2010 at 6:27 am #1208145

      Hi Leif,
      Thanks for your help.
      Your solution is only applicable to non .EXE files.
      What if .exe executable files?
      Armstrong

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      • WSjohnhutchison
        AskWoody Lounger
        February 5, 2010 at 4:05 pm #1208230

        Your solution is only applicable to non .EXE files.

        The first part of each the pages linked to contained this

        Did you try the suggestion for executable files?

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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 5, 2010 at 8:19 pm #1208263

      Hi John,
      I must miss something. What do you mean by “Did you try the suggestion for executable files?
      Armstrong

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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 5, 2010 at 8:22 pm #1208264

      Hi John,
      I did insert DisableHyperlinkWarning in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0Common[/b].
      Do I have to insert DisableHyperlinkWarning in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0Common[/b] as well?
      I only have Office 2007 on my Win7 X64 Ultimate.
      Armstrong

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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 5, 2010 at 11:22 pm #1208280

      Actually the more appropriate URL is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925757.

      At least in either case, the DisableHyperlinkWarning subkey won’t work. That’s what I meant.

      When reading further, the alternative solution includes:
      Method 1: Turn off the “Confirm open after download” option for the file type that you are trying to open
      In Win 7 X64, simply there’s no such things as “Folder Options” and “Confirm open after download”.

      Armstrong

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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 6, 2010 at 5:05 am #1208318

      What tormenting me most is most other file extensions such as PDF work successfully.

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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 8, 2010 at 7:44 pm #1208633

      Of course, it’s possible to include an executable as a URL such as c:MyPgmabc.exe.
      When clicking such URLs, Access will pop up a warning dialog box?
      How to block these annoying warning dialog boxes?
      Armstrong

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    • WSjohnhutchison
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 8, 2010 at 9:04 pm #1208651

      I don’t know the answer to your question!

      I re-read (more closely) the Microsoft posts linked to early in this thread, and realised I had misunderstood them before.
      They do not offer a solution for exe files. And maybe the last line of what I have posted below is telling us there is no solution.

      The only workaround I can think of is to replace all the hyerlink fields with plain text fields, then use VBA code to open the files.

      Code like this will run an exe without a warning message.

      Code:
      If Right(Me.link, 3) = "exe" Then
 	Shell Me.link, vbNormalFocus
 Else
 Application.FollowHyperlink Me.link
	End If

      It seems to me that this is not an Access question. It is either an Office question, or more generally a Windows 7 question. Moving the thread to the Win 7 forum will expose it to some new eyes who may have something extra to add. Would you like me to do that?

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    • WSarmsys
      AskWoody Lounger
      February 8, 2010 at 9:23 pm #1208652

      John,
      At least you help me learn a new piece of code. Thanks a lot.
      Armstrong

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