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raghavkh
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10 years ago
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Power Bi Desktop Update

Hello, I am trying to update Power BI desktop from the Power bi desktop and when I click the link to update it downloads the POwer Bi desktop installation file. I don't want to install it again but I...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Hello raghavkh

     

    To update your Power BI desktop installation, you have to download the latest version, just as it proposed you.

     

    when you execute the downloaded file, it should detect your previous installation and update it.

     

    Sébastien

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vanessa
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9 years ago

raulbarton maxui

 

I am facing the same issue. Have you found a solution to this?

 

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raulbarton
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9 years ago

@vanessa @maxui

Someone told me:

yes, I know. When I click the next, there is a choice to remove the previous installation. You install the program by Control Panel->Programs->Uninstall a program. Please find the directory for the application and delete all the files in the directory. The software is  located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop\bin defaultly. Then

Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE, HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software and find the folder for the application. Delete the folder. How to completely uninstall program, please review this article.

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but really, after that, I repaired it, when I opened regedit and looked for every entry with "power Bi Desktop" and I deleted everything and finally I reinstall the program again.

 

Regards

  • vanessa's avatar
    vanessa
    Post Patron
    9 years ago

    raulbarton I was getting an option "Next" and I wasn't able to uninstall from control panel as well.

     

    maxui I installed Windows Installer CleanUp Utility available on the microsoft website and it removed all the directories related to Power BI. And then I was able to install the latest version of PowerBI.

     

    • maxui's avatar
      maxui
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Thanks

       could you provide a link?

       I've found some suspect sites proporting to host it.

       

      Matt

       

      • rvanicelli's avatar
        rvanicelli
        New Member
        8 years ago

        I'm facing the same issue for upgrade / install fresh Power Bi desktop x64. I have already manually remove it, also I have use uninstall tools for complete remove (Iobit Pro) and I can't install Power Bi Deskop yet.

        It's showing that there is another power bi installation in progress, I have reboot computer twice with no sucessful.

        Can some one help me ?

        As I can't attach log file from this command: msiexec /i  PBIDesktop_x64.msi /l*xv install.log

         

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago

      This unistall utility worked for me. The only tweak was that there was no reference to a previous PowerBI installation, since theoretically it was already unistalled. But there were two "Name not available" (or something like that, not sure) entries which I could forcebly uninstall. After that, the new installation from msi just worked as expected. Thanks!!

      Juca