Recent content by ThioJoe

I'd have to see a screenshot or something of the actual rule. Were you sure to put wildcards as necessary?

I'd check the Event Viewer. The AppLocker logs are under: Application and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > AppLocker It might be saying something like "... was allowed to run." Which at least tells you AppLocker is enabled but there's some Allow rule that is being satisfied. Assuming...

Not to toot my own horn but I have what I think is a pretty comprehensive tutorial on setting up AppLocker: If you already came across it and decided that it was too complicated, I actually think for your desired purposes, simply the default automatically generated executable rules (shown at...

It indeed is. I have a few shortcuts to custom arbitrary locations in the Explorer navigation pane that were added by WinAero Tweaker in the form of a new CLSID, and they work too (specifically I had used the option "Navigation Pane - Custom Item" > "Add custom folder"). You could presumably...

Haven't read through the whole thread so not sure if someone already knew this, but turns out you can also create a shortcut to open the Windows 10 interface directly to any CLSID by "sending it through" the control panel. For example take this shell path which is used by a shortcut to Windows...