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evronhughes
11 years agoNew Member
Error installing Power BI Desktop on my Windows Tablet
I've tried several times to install the Power BI Desktop version on my Microsoft Surface Pro which I recently upgraded to Windows 10. I always get an error message (see screengrab). I've tried differ...
javedbh
Helper II
9 years agoI’m local administrator on my machine and I have enabled “User Account Control Settings”. I tried to install the power bi desktop October release and it gave me the same error. In windows 7, I do not see “run as administrator” option in context menu when I right click on the installer package. I ran the cmd.exe as administrator and installed the app using “msiexec” command and it was successful. I disabled “User Account Control Settings”, restarted my computer, then ran the setup in normal way and no error showed up.
I didn’t try “modify the security settings of temp folder” solution. That might also work. By default, local administrators have full permissions to this folder.