How to get rid of this error? Try the following solutions. This error makes that they cannot download anything through official or unofficial channels. There are three cases.Ĭase 1: If the application has been seen before and regarded to be safe, the feature will allow it to run.Ĭase 2: If the application has not been seen before and Windows is not sure whether it is safe, the feature will prevent it from starting and prompt a warning message, but you can bypass this warning.Ĭase 3: If the application has been seen before and regarded to be malicious, the feature will block it.īut some Windows users reported that they ran into the error ‘ SmartScreen can’t be reached right now’.
How does it work? For example, when you try downloading an application from Microsoft Edge, Windows SmartScreen will check it against a Microsoft database. The SmartScreen process (with the filename of smartscreen.exe) displayed in Task Explorer should be responsible for this feature. Introduced in Windows 8 and Windows 10, SmartScreen is a useful Windows feature that is used to block the suspicious file or application you try downloading from Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer.
