Installing Mach3 with Windows 11 Home

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Setting up my new laptop with the Mach 3 Legacy software and Fusion 360.

I’ll try to keep this short; has anyone experienced a problem installing the Crossfire Mach 3 USB Motion Controller Plug-In v1.0 into a laptop with Windows 11 Home? I can download it but when I try to open or save it so I can install it into Mach 3, I get an immediate “Mach3-CrossFire-MotionControl-v1.dll was blocked because this type of file can harm your device.” warning. I can install all the other Legacy downloads for Mach 3 without issue but the Plug-In .dll file will not. There is no override button to install this .dll file anyway. Just hoping someone else had this problem and has a work around.

TIA, Taad

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Just a follow-up to my problem above:

Langmuir Support helped me get the .dll file installed by sending me a compressed version. I opened it up and was able to click and drag it into the Mach3 folder without any problems. This worked great and now Mach 3 has the needed motion control file. Thanks Langmuir Support (Zachary). Not sure why my downloaded version wouldn’t open or save, but chalk it up to Windows 11 security preventing me from saving a .dll file. Oh well, it works now!