Windows cannot execute

When you try to install, update or start a program or a file, you receive the following error message:. Error: Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item. To resolve this issue, follow the steps in the methods below starting with method 1, if that method does not resolve the issue continue to the next method.

Note Make sure you are an Administrator or you are part of the Domain Admins group if you are in a domain. Permissions are rules associated with files that determine if you can access the file and what you can do with it. To check the permission of the file or folder, follow these steps:. Under Group or User names, click your name to see the permissions you have. The screen shot for this step is listed below. Select Edit, and then select to check the check boxes for the permissions that you need, and then select OK.

For more information on permissions, see What are permissions? You might get this error if the shortcut or installation is attempting to access a location that is not currently available such as a networked or a removable drive. What to do in this case?

If users can run EXE files locally on their computers, but an error appears when launching files from network shared folders, then the cause of the problem may be different.

Try running the executable file in compatibility mode. To do this, open the properties of the EXE file, go to the Compatibility tab, select the compatibility mode with Windows 8. Try to run the application from a network share.

The problem may be related to the fact that you are trying to connect to a shared folder located on a device that only supports the SMB v1 protocol this could be a NAS storage device, a file server with a legacy OS version, such as Windows XP or Windows Server Errors may indicate this:. Also, if you are using Linux Samba as a file server, you can disable SMB1 in the configuration file smb. In this case, you will be able to run executable files located in shared folders from your Windows 10 device.

Thanks for the info! But the problem with running applications from network folders is actually related to updating the engine of the built-in antivirus Windows Defender in Windows 10 If you disable Windows Defender and install an alternative antivirus, the problem with executing executable files from the shared folders disappears.

I get different results when the network location is my NAS problem evident , compared to a file share on my Windows File servers problem not evident. For some users, this method might work in the Safe mode. Turn off Windows Firewall Every genuine Windows comes integrated with Firewall protection to protect the system from external malware attacks. Disabling Windows Firewall can also fix this issue, as reported by some users.

But, if disabling it fixes some problems, then you can give it a try. General Suggestions for Fixing. To start your system in Clean Boot, you need to run msconfig command in the Run dialog box, which will display the System Configuration Utility. Go to the Services tab and hide all the Microsoft services, then click the Startup tab to locate the culprit software and disable it. Install Latest Updates Check for Windows 10 latest updates and install on your system.

If the latest updates are not installed, then download and install it because sometimes. Learn more about RDS. Running multiple concurrent desktop flows by the same user is not supported. You will need to have different users running desktop flows at the same time to benefit from this feature. You can choose to distribute desktop flows runs evenly across gateways in a cluster. By default, the selection of a gateway during load balancing is random. Follow these steps to add a gateway to create a cluster.

Offline gateway members within a cluster will negatively impact performance. Disable or remove these members. In the gateway details page, toggle Run on all gateways in cluster. This will distribute the desktop flows runs on all the gateways within that cluster. In rare cases, it can take up to 10 minutes for this setting to be effective and for load balancing runs to begin accross cluster members.

If you are using local Windows accounts, all machines in the cluster must have the same local account with the same password. Use these credentials when you create the desktop flows connection. If you are using Active Directory or Azure AD joined machines, confirm that the user account you will be using in the desktop flows connection can access all machines in the cluster.

If you plan to run multiple desktop flows, there are a set of strategies you can adopt to distribute load and ensure that all your desktop flows run successfully without overloading the target machine s or running into timeouts because multiple desktop flows are running at the same time.

You can either:. By following these strategies, you can avoid having desktop flows competing to run on the same device and in some cases failing due to timeouts. If you are running desktop flows in unattended mode, you will need to anticipate the number of desktop flows your organization plans to run in parallel, and then purchase an adequate amount of Unattended Add-ons.

If a target device or gateway becomes offline due to either a restart or connectivity issues, desktop flows will wait for up to three hours before it fails. This wait time allows for transient machine states and allows you to successfully run automation even even if the devices go through restart or update cycles. Some of your desktop flows might run for long durations e. To ensure that those flows run successfully and don't fail due to the default timeout values:.

Select the ellipsis … on the top right corner of the desktop flows action.