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tlaresch
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7 years ago
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Desktop hangs on splash screen "Initializing model"

One of our Windows 2012 machines is no longer able to start Power BI Desktop  We have Power BI installed on a couple of Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 VMs with 16 GB, as well as several laptops with 8GB,...
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    tlaresch
    7 years ago

    I resolved this issue by uninstalling and manually removing the folder c:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop.

    The issue seems to be that the uninstall was not removing the folder completely.

    Note that when I installed after uninstall, I got this message after clicking Finish with Launch selected:

    The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package.  This may indicate a problem with this package.  The error code is 2753.

     

    Lin,

     

    Thanks for your reply.  I had re-installed it previously without success, but you inspired me to try again with uninstalling, and that seems to be the trick.  This machine has had many version of desktop, so perhaps something from long ago was confusing the new install.

     

    Tom