Aria Installing on Windows

Windows will show a warning. Here’s what it means.

The first time you open Aria’s installer, Windows shows a blue box. Here is what it says, why it says it, and the two clicks that get you through.

What you’ll see — an illustration, not a live window. “Run anyway” only appears after you click “More info”.
  1. Click “More info” It’s the small underlined link, not a button. This is the step almost everyone misses — until you click it, the only visible button is the one that cancels.
  2. Click “Run anyway” The installer opens and Aria installs normally. You will not see this warning again on this computer.

Why this happens

This is not Windows telling you Aria is dangerous. Windows has not scanned Aria and found something — it is telling you it hasn’t seen Aria enough times yet.

Microsoft counts how many people have installed a program. Below a certain number, every new program gets this screen, no matter who made it. Aria is new, so it is below that number. The warning fades as more churches install it, and the churches installing it early are the reason it fades.

Making sure you have the real file

Fair question to ask of any download. Two things to check:

Came from
ariascreen.com
File name
Aria-Setup.exe
Size
about 1.45 GB
Exactly 1,557,542,682 bytes, which is what Windows will show you.
Fingerprint
EE91B7C9C29C038FBD557645385DC2467281A98D6A79B6F24D6BBE6A5C7B1F77

The fingerprint is for whoever looks after your computers, if you have someone. They can confirm the file is byte-for-byte the one we published by opening Command Prompt in the Downloads folder and running:

certutil -hashfile Aria-Setup.exe SHA256

And the other half of that: if someone sent you Aria as an email attachment or a message, don’t run it — whatever this page says. Download it from ariascreen.com yourself. We would rather you ignored us than trusted a file we didn’t give you.

How long the install takes

Aria is a large program — it carries its own Bible library and speech engine so it keeps working when the church wifi doesn’t. Expect around 20 minutes, and let it finish before opening it.