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rocky0429
8 years agoRegular Visitor
Cannot Uninstall Power BI Desktop
I am attempting to upgrade my Power BI Desktop. While attempting installation, I received the following error. I attempted to solve by manually removing my current installation following the s...
- 8 years ago
Thanks v-yulgu-msft I followed that solution too, manually removing every reference to Power BI Desktop from my registry, but I continued to to receive the same error while attempting installation.
I was finally able to reinstall after finding Power BI desktop in the Microsoft store app and downloading from there.
nzhome
3 years agoNew Member
I had the same issue. actually its because microsoft wrote two installers, and they are not compatible with each other. In powershell you have to uninstall the other installer using this command.
Get-Appxpackage -allusers Microsoft.MicrosoftPowerBIDesktop | Remove-AppxPackage -package