Monday, May 27, 2013

The annoying Smartscreen features in Windows 8

The Smartscreen filter should used to idenitfy the unsafed desktop application before it run and warn you.  However, it always prompt during startup when it do not have internet connection, and it consume internet bandwidth and data when everytime it boot up, if you trusted the application installed on the system, here is the way to turn it off!

  • from Control Panel, go to System and Security / Action Center
  • select Change Windows SmartScreen settings
  • provide the local admin access when the UAC prompt
  • change the settings to the one you want, i prefer "Don't do anything"
  • click OK

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