Why am I receiving the message "This app has been blocked for your protection." when running MATLAB as an Administrator?

Why am I receiving the User Account Control message "This app has been blocked for your protection." when running MATLAB as an Administrator on Windows?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Some older releases of MATLAB on Windows, including R2014b through R2017b, will display this error when right-clicking and selecting "Run as Administrator" due to changes in Windows security since their release. There are a few possible workarounds for this:

• Go into the MATLAB installation directory (ex: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2017b\bin\win64)
  • Launch the MATLAB.exe in this directory as an administrator. Make sure you're launching it from \win64 and not \bin.
  • You can create a shortcut to this executable if you don't want to continue launching it from the win64 directory.
• Run Command Prompt, PowerShell, File Explorer, or another program as an Administrator and then open the MATLAB executable from inside that program.
• Create and run a batch script that runs MATLAB as an administrator.