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7 years ago
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Unable to Install Power BI Desktop

I had Power BI 32 & 64 bit versions installed on my system which i had to uninstall as they both had gone non responsive. After uninstalling both the Power BI versions, i am now trying to do a fresh...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Looks like i was finally able to get a workaround for this issue!

     

    Since i was neither able to Uninstall the existing version of PowerBI in an attempt to do a clean install nor i was able to install the latest version (32 or 64 bit) of Power BI Desktop that i had downloaded from MSFT Website, I did the following.

     

    I found an older version of the PBI Desktop in my downloads folder and used that installter to first downgrade my installation and thankfully that installation worked properly and it replaced my existing version of Power BI with an older version of PBI.

     

    Once i had the older version of PBI Desktop installed on my system i tried the latest version of PBI Desktop installation once again and it worked for me.

    I do hope that microsoft has an archive of the older version of PBI Desktop that can be downloaded and used. If not i can share it from one drive in case someone needs it.

    Hope this helps!

     

    Regards,

    Suvrat

  • Jacquesde's avatar
    Jacquesde
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago
    I just wanted to thank everyone for the advice and the links provided. I was able to install at least the 2019 August version so was able to use the program and get the work done. However i could not install any version after August. Not from Official links as an .exe nor the Store version. I am still looking for a way to install the software past August. But again. Thanks for the good advice. Regards
    Jacques