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Comment by Something1234

> The "hint" you are referring to is the Zone.Identifier - which only tells you what internet zone it was downloaded from (trusted, internet or untrusted). It's only available for browser downloads to an NTFS disk

~ from the superuser link above.

So what actual use is this small field? Wouldn't it be more useful for windows to provide the url and some function to determine if it was trusted?

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