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Old 05-14-2022, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
I highly recommend that you have someone help you understand more about your computer's operating system.

That warning is -usually- your Windows OS telling you that you're about to download an executable file that will actually DO something once it opens. It will install onto your computer, and add a few lines to your registry. If it's something you know that you're doing on purpose, from a reputable company, then you're fine - you actually want it to do that.

If you don't know if that's what you're trying to do, you probably shouldn't do it, and ask a computer technician to help you do it and show you step by step what it is that you're doing (so you can know for the next time you need to do something like that).
Most people don't want to be computer experts, they just want to use it. Chromebooks are easy and safe. I've programmed computers before PCs. I got a Chromebook in 2010 and never looked back. The last version of Windows I used was 7. I don't need any special Windows programs.