Possibly, modifying the registry can work. 
Note that I had no chance to verify this. 
However, here is the information if someone wants to give it a try.

Here is what I did: after doing what was suggested above, 
I went to the registry, looking for ".exe" (whole string). 
I found the following two entries:

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-436374069-2052111302-725345543-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group 
Policy Objects\{D6F0CF57-F4B7-4A5E-99CF-5A432ED9C0D9}User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
"ModRiskFileTypes"=".exe"


[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-436374069-2052111302-725345543-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
"ModRiskFileTypes"=".exe"

Presumably, the cryptic-looking part is different on all machines. 
I suggest you to walk to the relevant part of the registry and add these entries. 
Let us know if this works on the Home editions.







On Friday, July 27, 2007 at 3:02 pm, JSanders wrote:

>Good tip, however this won't work in Vista except in the Business and Ultimate versions 

>(and I imagine Enterprise).  There is no group policy editor in the Home versions 

>of Vista.

>
 

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