Re: "Getting 'This app can’t run on your PC' (Access Denied) error when running Python or checking version in CMD on Windows 11"

[Thomas Passin]

On 3/8/2025 10:47 PM, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> Hi Thomas and team,
> 
> It's worked In non-admin privileges after put the file in path at the 
> first on environmental path variables, but with admin privileges it 
> doesn't work though. Showing same error, as I mentioned earlier.

If the path had been set for a local user but not for the system, you 
would see that behavior.

The install from python.org should have installed the "py" launcher. 
Does that run?  IOW, does typing "py" launch Python?

> 
> Kind regards,
> Sincerely,
> Praveen Kumar
> Mob: +91 9515531643
> 
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, 09:03 Praveen Kumar, 
> <thitanpraveenkumar143 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thitanpraveenkumar143 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Thomas
> 
>     No, I wasn't installed by admin privileges and I'm not running as a
>     non-admin, regardless I tried running with admin and non-admin
>     privileges, however the issue still persisted.
> 
>     Kind regards,
>     Sincerely,
>     Praveen Kumar
>     Mob: +91 9515531643
> 
>     On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, 03:52 Thomas Passin via Python-list, <python-
>     list at python.org <mailto:python-list at python.org>> wrote:
> 
>         On 3/8/2025 5:29 AM, Praveen Kumar via Python-list wrote:
>          > Hi Python community and members,
>          >
>          > I hope this email finds you well, I want you to be assisted
>         in resolving
>          > this following issue. kindly look at the below concern,
>          >
>          > """I’m running into an error where I get a 'This app can’t
>         run on your PC'
>          > pop-up with (Access is Denied error) whenever I try to run
>         the Python
>          > version (python --version) or run python.exe in the Command
>         Prompt on
>          > Windows 11."""
>          >
>          >
>          > *Here’s what I’ve tried so far:*
>          >
>          > *Uninstalled python software from the apps settings and
>         reinstalled python
>          > software from the official python.org <http://python.org> site
>          >
>          > *Added Python to the PATH in the Environment Variables.
>         (system variables,
>          > User variables.)
>          >
>          > ***C:\Users\Bharath\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\
>          > ***C:
>         \Users\Bharath\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Scripts\
>          >
>          > * however, then after I tried running direct path execution
>         in the cmd.
>          > "C:
>         \Users\Bharath\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\python.exe"
>          > --version, however it works well and it executed and showed
>         the version,
>          > but without file path, it won't work anyway.
>          >
>          > * Additionally I've checked windows apps interference whether
>         it is causing
>          > this error, and I saw a couple of python.exe files in this
>         folder contains
>          > 0KB size then I thought these were corrupted and after I
>         tried deleting
>          > these files, later I re-checked in cmd, however the issue
>         persisted. refer
>          > to the following error for your further reference.
>          >
>          >
>          >
>          > *https://i.sstatic.net/6koOnZBM.png <https://
>         i.sstatic.net/6koOnZBM.png>
>          > <https://i.sstatic.net/6koOnZBM.png <https://
>         i.sstatic.net/6koOnZBM.png>>https://i.sstatic.net/65JC9FuB.png
>         <https://i.sstatic.net/65JC9FuB.png>
>          > <https://i.sstatic.net/65JC9FuB.png <https://
>         i.sstatic.net/65JC9FuB.png>>*
>          >
>          > * Ran the Command Prompt as an administrator.
>          >
>          > *Tried multiple other troubleshooting steps, but none of them
>         worked.
>          >
>          > Despite these efforts, the issue persists. Could someone
>         please help me
>          > resolve this?
>          >
>          > Extending my request you to kindly help me out of this error
>         and give me
>          > the root cause of this problem.
>          >
>          >
>          > *Kind regards, *
>          >
>          > *Sincerely,*
>          >
>          > *Praveen Kumar*
>          >
>          > *Mob: *+91 9515531643
> 
>         It sounds like you installed Python as an admin but are trying
>         to run it
>         as a non-admin user.
> 
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