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Windows start button > Type "config" and press enter > System and Security > Security and Maintenance > Change Windows SmartScreen settings. > Turn off Windows SmartScreen.
That's just about the WORST thing you could do to your system—if you could disable everything that CAN be disabled with THOSE directions, you would have a virtually DEFENSELESS machine—if it could operate at all.
Now, hold on there, Omega! You DID give some good advice! Everything that came after your opening suggestion was great.
Myself always completely disables User Account Control—but only experienced Windows administrators are advised to do this. With the exception of all Windows 8.1 platforms, I've administered every single platform edition released between 1984 to present. I'm pretty sure I know which applications don't represent a threat to my data, privacy, and system, and Webroot SecureAnywhere has my back if Windows Defender¹ or Windows Firewall allows any "bad guys" in.
However, non-expert users with little or no experience outside a controlled and sheltered corporate environment needs to be aware of the PURPOSE of Windows Smart Screen: It's there to protect you. If you disable it, you need to step up your "game." The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. You are going to have to be more aware of the processes running in RAM and what thier functions are, and you're gonna have to learn how to become a "firefighter," lest your "house" be taken by flame.
¹Always buy their 5-PC / device license, even if you only have a single machine; the top-tier package protects against more threats in more ways.
Smart screen is trash and only annoys the user.
OP is a home user not some guy on a PC that belongs the business he works for. What next? Recommend him a non admin account to prevent him from installing crap? Or would you prefer the set up a domain, link his PC to it and prevent him from accessing anything except his Email?
Let me guess: You are a admin for a big corporation?
Well I am some guy that repairs PCs for a living, I do what I think is best for the costumer.
Even AV doesnt find everything or give you a better protection. Most AV even spying on you more then they defending you. Kaspersky even is under investigation by the FBI...
I hope that you find patting yourself on the back just for the sake of unmitigated self-admiration to be satisfying. God forbid you should actually get any EDUCATION or EXPERIENCE (I'm talking professional employment or academic instruction, like yours truly has) in what you so blithely babble nonsense about.
Congrats! You just made my "Ignore This Idiot" list.
P.S.: You GOTTA be lying about your job, 'causae you don't know JACK.