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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