@maries_sketchbook told me I accidentally downloaded a shady program, so maybe I did! Now, my desktop is gone. I'm left with a black screen, so I have to open apps from the Task Manager. Downloaded apps from the Internet now say “Your organization used Device Guard to block this app.” whenever I try to open a program from the Internet. What do I do?

say [my pc is broken so now i can only use edge, paint, and other apps that were not downloaded from the Internet.]

dude is very ez , so to settings > updates & securities > recovery > then press reset
it should reset everything and be everything back

nowayoryesway wrote:

dude is very ez , so to settings > updates & securities > recovery > then press reset
it should reset everything and be everything back

“Settings” is a metro windows 10 app that only works when the desktop works

actually, the main problem is that downloaded apps from the Internet now say “Your organization used Device Guard to block this app.” whenever I try to open a program from the Internet. What do I do?

Try checking task manager for any shady programs.

EDIT: try looking up what it says i did and someone says that its a part of “Windows Defender Security Suite” so maybe windows acivated it because it thought what you downloaded was a virus or maybe the program did that itself.

Quote from the answers page:

Device Guard is a part of Windows Defender Security Suite.

If this is a personal Computer it would be rare for it to be turned on.

If it is a Company/Organisation's computer, then it has been set by your IT adminstrator.

Hope this helps.

EDIT 2: Also would you mind me asking what you were downloading? Of course don't say what website you got it from or the exact program but tell me what type of program it is like a drawing app or search engine.

merry christmas! sorry i had to type this today because i coundnt use the pc on christmas for some reason

I'm assuming you use windows since you use task manager, but have you tried opening explorer.exe? That's what contains the desktop, taskbar and stuff.

nowayoryesway wrote:

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dude is very ez , so to settings > updates & securities > recovery > then press reset
it should reset everything and be everything back

that will delete every single thing, what if OP has important stuff on there?
(but again, what if every file was encrypted or injected with malware?!?)

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