Solid Edge Running SolidEdgeSLU.exe without changing UAC in W10

2024-08-05T01:02:47Z
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The customer has a subscription license and is logged in with non administrative rights; when starting Solid Edge, the SolidEdgeSLU.exe is launched and always asks for administrative rights through User Account Control (UAC) to execute.

The customer is not willing to give all of their users administrative rights for to run the .exe file, so the question is, if there is at least a workaround for this issue.

Solution

There are two possible workarounds...

1) Click on the Solid Edge shortcut on the Desktop with the right mouse mutton and in the context menu select "Run as Administrator"


2) The alternative workaround is for the company's IT team to edit the properties of the SolidEdgeSLU.exe, that resides in the Solid Edge Program directory  and under the Security tab enable the "Read and execute" option for the Users group:


Notes

If you have further inquiries about Solid Edge General Licensing please refer to the FAQs Collection link below:

Solid Edge General Licensing FAQs Collection


KB Article ID# PL8014427

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