DMD installation prompts "Windows protected your PC"

Timoses timosesu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 13:34:18 UTC 2018


On Monday, 6 August 2018 at 16:22:51 UTC, rjframe wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:13:02 +0000, Timoses wrote:
>
>> Thanks Windows, not!
>> 
>> Since our department switched to Windows 10 I'm now unable to 
>> install DMD.
>> 
>> To make it even worse, there's no way I see to install a 
>> virtual machine any more (VirtualBox or VMWare) since they 
>> collide with Hyper-V. I've disabled Hyper-V, but it seems 
>> there can be a lot of things using it around one's back anyway.
>
> By "disable Hyper-V", do you mean uninstall via Add/Remove 
> Windows Features? I've never had a problem with VirtualBox 
> after that.

Apparently even if the user unchecks Hyper-V under Add/Remove 
Windows Features it does not prevent other apps or services from 
silently using (activating) it... So it's a matter of digging and 
finding out what exactly does. And I don't have the resouces to 
do that.

>
> Have you tried the DMD zip instead of installer?

Thanks, works!



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