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Rocko
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9 years ago
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PowerBI Desktop fails to start

One day recently my PowerBI Desktop started to crash when started.  It would display the splash screen but then close down.  Only error in Event Viewer:   The description for Event ID 0 from source...
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    Rocko
    9 years ago

    I finally got it to work. My computer had SQL Server 2016 installed (Engine, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) with SSDT and VIsual Studio 2015.  I uninstall all of it.  Reinstalled Power BI and now it works.  It had worked fine up until I had installed SSDT and VS 2015.  I had tried just uninstalling SSDT but that did nothing.  I could not find away to uninstall VS so I  uninstalled everything else.  When I have the time I will re-install SQL Server 2016 and SSDT and see if it breaks it again.