Steven,

Thanks for your response.

Unfortunately, being an XPe machine, I cannot run gpedit locally. However,
I managed to run the console from a networked PC, only to find that
attachment manager doesn't exist on the XPe box

Any other ideas???

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> Try opening local Group Policy [gpedit.msc] and go to user
> configuration/administrative templates/Windows components/attachment
> manager - inclusion list for low file types and add the file's extension to
> the list. Of course keep in mind that will allow any file with that
> extension to run on your computer without any prompt. --- Steve
>
>
> "D Fisher" <D Fisher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsA7BF513-AB19-41CC-B3B1-8E336E593105@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to run an executable on a thin client PC that unfortunately
> > isn't digitally signed. This executable will run successfully on XP Pro
> > SP2
> > and XPe SP1, but with XPe SP2, I get an alert "The publisher could not be
> > verified", and I need to click OK to run the program.
> >
> > Problem is, I need the program to run automatically when the PC starts
> > up -
> > the publisher probably will not bother with digitally signing as support
> > for
> > this product is being ceased soon.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to trust this executable such that the warning
> > message doesn't crop up???
>
>
>