When downloading files from the internet or copying them from a (foreign) server, these files will be marked as blocked by default.
Each file can be unblocked by right-clicking the file and manually selecting unblock, but what if you have a whole bunch of files to unblock? In that case you can use Powershell:
Get-Item -Path "$env:windir\Fonts\*" -Stream "Zone.Identifier" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | % { Unblock-File -Path $_.FileName }
The oneliner above consists of two parts:
In the example above, we are running this on the Fonts folder to unblock all font files that have been installed from a foreign server (in fact, by another script). It goes without saying that when operating on restricted folders (such as C:\Windows\Fonts), you will need to run this as admin.
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