You may want to disable this warning, if so, follow the steps below.
- Open Service Manager(press
+
R, type services.msc
and hit Enter).
- Search for
Program Compatibility Assistance Service
in the list.
- Right click on this service and select
Stop
.
- Now again right click on
Program Compatibility Assistance Service
and select Properties
.
- Under
General
tab in the Startup type
section, click on the drop-down menu and select Disabled
.
- Click on
Apply
then OK
.
Note: Program Compatibility Assistance monitors programs for known compatibility issues and can be very beneficial for end users. This tip is aimed at power users.
Another probable solution
is to embed a manifest file to avoid this alert. Something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
<application>
<!--The ID below indicates application support for Windows 7 -->
<supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>
</application>
</compatibility>
</assembly>
How to embed the application manifest
into my executable?
You can use this utility(mt.exe
- assuming you have the sdk installed) from Microsoft to do this. You would use a similar command like this:
mt.exe -manifest "foo.manifest" -outputresource:"foo.exe";#1
Other Considerations
- Consider using this program(
7z SFX-Creator
), according to this page: self-extracting archives created will no longer cause alert PCA.
- See if IExpress may be useful to you
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Disabling the warning doesn't help, the end users cannot be expected to modify their computer setup. I've never seen this when receiving self-extracting archives, is it a bug in 7zip? Also - any idea why it needs admin rights? The folder in question isn't a protected one like Program Files. – Mr. Boy – 2014-03-18T13:53:54.710
1IExpress is a great free (and semi-secret) feature in Windows but sadly doesn't support directories only a flat file structure. – Mr. Boy – 2014-03-18T17:53:50.247