{"id":273,"date":"2010-09-27T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nukeitmike.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/windows-cannot-access-the-specified-device-2\/%20"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T15:23:57","slug":"windows-cannot-access-the-specified-device-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/27\/windows-cannot-access-the-specified-device-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows cannot access the specified device"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an old problem, but I still see it from time to time.  You are trying to run and executable that you downloaded, and you are on a Windows 2003 system.  You double click and get:<\/p>\n

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As you can see here, I am simply trying to install the windirstat<\/a> utility to figure out what is taking up all the disk space.  If you have drive space issues, and we seem to always have drive space issues, this is a great utility.<\/p>\n

The problem is this:<\/p>\n

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Notice the Security section at the bottom.  if you click on Unblock, then it looks like this:<\/p>\n

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Apply the change and the security section at the bottom goes away, and you can then run the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an old problem, but I still see it from time to time.  You are trying to run and executable that you downloaded, and you are on a Windows 2003 system.  You double click and get:   As you can see here, I am simply trying to install the windirstat utility to figure out… Continue reading Windows cannot access the specified device<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,38],"tags":[99,106,120],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info","category-microsoft","category-windows-server-2003","tag-how-to","tag-install","tag-microsoft","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcW544-4p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}