Power BI Desktop not Launching

[RGTTech]

Hi guys,

I have just dowloaded and installed the latest version of Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 Ultimate platform. When I click the Power BI Desktop icon to start the application a splash screen appears, stating that Power BI Desktop is "Initializing Model" and then just closes the splash screen with no error message and Power BI Desktop does not launch.

I have read all the posts I can find in the community forum and tried various ways to fix this problem, but to no avail.

The only information I can find on this issue is in the Window event log with Error Details:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="MSOLAP$AnalysisServicesWorkspace669878666" />

<EventID Qualifiers="49441">25</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>289</Task>

<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-06-26T07:13:22.000000000Z" />

<EventRecordID>281239</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data>msmdsrvi.rll</Data>

<Data>7177</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

Has anyone perhaps come accross this or have any advice on how to get Power BI Desktop up and running? 

Thank you!