Article - CS26965
Warning “User Account Control: A program needs your permission to continue” when executing setup.exe
Modified: 28-May-2025
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 3.0 to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 10.0
- Mathcad Prime 1.0 to 11.0
- Mathcad 14.0 to 15.0
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2008 Server
Description
- Warning “User Account Control: A program needs your permission to continue” when executing setup.exe or other executable
- User Account Control popup appears with Do you want to allow the following program to install software on this computer? after launching Creo Parametric
- Error "Elevated privilege needed Enable User Account Control (UAC) and authenticate or run PTC Installation Assistant as Administrator" during installation of Creo Parametric
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