Summary

When running Synmain.exe usually over a network share or unc path or from a file server users can experience the following error

"This app can't run on your PC"

Resolution

Synergetic has previously provided two Synergetic executable files:

• SynMain.exe (approx. 8mb)
• SynMainBig.exe (approx. 41mb).

We have had occasional reports from clients that Windows 10 may regard the compressed executable file as malware (due to it decompressing in memory) and block its execution, preventing users from running the default application exe file. 

To mitigate this potential disruption for our clients, we are making SynMain.exe the uncompressed file and, removing the SynMainBig.exe file.

For users where the size of the executable file may be of concern (e.g. users with limited network bandwidth) we are providing an alternative compressed version, SynMainSmall.exe which may be used in application shortcuts instead.

Considerations

When renaming SynmainBig to Synmain any future upgrades will automatically overwrite the new compressed version of SynMain.