Today I discovered a rather inconvenient fact about Windows 10 while showing Zhongkey to some people in this year's Chinese class. SmartScreen, the Windows feature that warns users about unknown (i.e. rare and unsigned) apps, now outright refuses to permit such a program to run without administrator approval. That defeats a large part of the purpose of portable software for non-administrative domain users, and I am not a fan.
Fortunately, it can be disabled by administrators in the desktop Control Panel's system settings, just like in Windows 8. See one of many guides to making the change. I think - but am not sure - that the showstoppingness will be suppressed if the zone identifier is removed by pressing Unblock in the downloaded program's property sheet.
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