Windows 10 Home - "Unauthorized changes blocked"

Anonymous
2017-12-05T21:26:24+00:00

THIS WAS ANSWERED BY ANDRE DA COSTA ON 12/5/17 - his "fix" worked perfectly - I thought I marked this "ANSWERED" - please check his answer, below this initial post.  

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/profile/e5564792-9930-4912-828b-e206924b132a

I'm using Windows 10 x64 Home on an HP laptop - Suddenly, I can no longer download photos from my SD card using the port on my laptop and my Photoshop Elements 15 - I get the following messages:

Unauthorized changes blocked

Controlled Folder Access blocked C:...\PhotoDownloader...from making changes to the folder %userprofil...$test$

Or:

Unauthorized changes blocked 

Controlled Folder Access blocked C:...\PhotoshopElement...from making changes to the folder %userprofile%\Documents

I want to use Photoshop in order to rename each photo as I download and I'm afraid this is completely blocking my use of Photoshop at all

I'm not computer literate so any help you can give needs to be in detailed, step by step format.

Thank you for any help you can offer

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Anonymous
2017-12-05T21:35:41+00:00

Open Windows Defender Security Center

Click Virus & threat protection

Click Virus & threat protection

Scroll down to the bottom then toggle off Controlled folder access

Try again

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-02T00:06:26+00:00

    Use the Windows Defender Security app to enable Controlled folder access

    1. Open the Windows Defender Security Center by clicking the shield icon in the task bar or searching the start menu for Defender.
    2. Click the Virus & threat protection tile (or the shield icon on the left menu bar) and then the Virus & threat protection settingslabel:
    3. Set the switch for the feature to On

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/enable-controlled-folders-exploit-guard

    Rather than, turning it Off, please consider using 'Controlled folder access' and becoming familiar with this Win10 enhancement to protect your safety and security.

    see also:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/threat-protection/windows-defender-exploit-guard/controlled-folders-exploit-guard

    Also, consider turning on PUP protection in Windows Defender:

    PUA Protection is disabled by default and needs to be enabled. This is easy with PowerShell – just run this command line at the elevated PowerShell Prompt:

    Set-MpPreference -PUAProtection 1

    Then confirm that the value was reset by returning the current state for PUAProtection:

    $Preferences = Get-MpPreference

    $Preferences.PUAProtection

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_defender-protect_scanning-windows_10/windows-defender-not-detecting-known-adware/9cfe114b-8d1b-42a2-8268-34dc3acf9390?auth=1

    from GreginMich 's post.

    Thanks for post with screenshots ,it help me a lot

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-28T07:05:21+00:00

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-26T18:04:17+00:00

    It helps. Thanks.

    I'm trying to put LibreOffice in the Execptions, but still same problem.

    Going forward, application developers will be providing specific information for allowing their apps, and should soon be providing help with this in their forums as well:

    Defender Controlled folder access exception for LibreOffice

    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/Defender_Controlled_folder_access_exception

    Installing LibreOffice on Windows with Defender Controlled folder access feature enabled

    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/Defender_Controlled_folder_access

    GreginMich

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-26T17:24:22+00:00

    Thanks, I've run a suite of checks and all seems ok, I'm thinking these are 'just' false positives because noting untoward is happening even if I turn audit mode off and the changes are blocked - assuming they are actually blocked.

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