Stop this: "Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to your computer ..."

I have been plagued for years by this wretched message which MS Office generates whenever I click on a hyperlink in a spreadsheet. I find it particularly irritating since I do all my file management with a suite of spreadsheets initially written by me years ago, still constantly developed, using Excel Basic procedures & functions. I have managed to suppress the message for .jpg & .bmp files but no other types of file, not even .png. Even that required a registry entry. Does anybody know how to suppress the message altogether, please? I'm not even sure where it comes from, but I don't think it's Excel itself.

Originally Posted by npamcpp

Make the originating folder a trusted location.

Thank you for your very quick reply. However, I have already tried that, both by designating a parent folder as trusted with subfolder inheritance, and by designating the folder itself. Neither works. I think (my memory is fading with age ..) that I have even switched off UAC altogether without success. What I actually want to do is to KILL the subroutine which produces that message - it is like a little gnat that keeps on turning up when it is not wanted, buzzing around and spoiling the picnic!

Interestingly, I have read and acted upon an earlier version of this MS support article and have made the DisableHyperlinkWarning entry already. This is what my opening message was referring to, and it did help. But the further steps were not described in 2006 or whenever I first read it. Thank you for reminding me where to find the article. I will try out the further steps and report back to the forum, in case anyone else is as irritated as I am about this message. After all, we are grown up, and should be allowed to take risks if we think it's worth it. But I note that the authors themselves don't seem completely sure about whether what they describe will work!

I have Excel 2007 and tried "MicrosoftFixit50681.msi". But it does not seem to work.