Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16 (freshly installed) when started immediately (i.e. before showing any GUI or such) fails with an error popup stating:

"A part of Paragon System Utilities has stopped working.
A problem caused the program to stop workig correctly..."

This is on a Windows 7 Enterprise laptop (x64 / Lenovo P50 / 32GB RAM / ample disk space left).

Googling for the above message suggested that an (over-)active AV might be interfering, but even with AV (McAfee) disabled the same error shows up.

How can I get this working? The purpose of the exercise is to create a bootable 1:1 recovery disk of the built-in HD.