OS Not Presently Configured to Run This Application

Drybonz · Sep 19, 2023

I got a second "windows configuration update" last night, and this morning, when trying to open Outlook, I get the error message "OS Not Presently Configured to Run This Application". Anyone else? Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

Drybonz · Sep 19, 2023

For anyone else that encounters this... I was able to get things back to normal by running it in Windows 8 compatibility mode. This is Outlook 2013, I think... so it sounds like they are trying to phase some stuff out.

Robottom · Sep 19, 2023

MS Office 2013. I just started having the same problem this morning as well. I did the repair online and that seemed to fix most things. At least until I tried to open an excel spreadsheet, then the same thing happened again. So tried each Office application individually, Word worked, Outlook worked, Powerpoint worked for slideshows but not for ppt files. Excel would open if I clicked on the .exe itself but wouldn't open any xls or xlxs files. Excel told me that it wasn't the default app and said go to settings default apps to fix. So, I did that and set excel as the default app for all of the appropriate extensions. The default app had been set to APPVLP, whatever that is. I don't know what APPVLP is but it seems to be the root of this problem. How do we get rid of this appvlp?

Xavio · Sep 20, 2023

You need to disable the auto update function in office and downgrade it to a lower version with this command:
For Office 2013 32bit

Code:

"%programfiles%\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX86\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=15.0.5571.1000

For Office 2013 64bit

Code:

"%programfiles%\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX64\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=15.0.5571.1000

Robottom · Sep 20, 2023

Xavio, thank you.
I had to fill in my own path instead of using %programfiles% but the rest of the 64 bit command line worked perfectly.
Also turned off any future updates, thanks again!!

jimbo45 · Sep 22, 2023

Drybonz said:
For anyone else that encounters this... I was able to get things back to normal by running it in Windows 8 compatibility mode. This is Outlook 2013, I think... so it sounds like they are trying to phase some stuff out.

seems a bit strange as outlook 2010 still works properly together with the rest of the office suite (EXCEL etc). Even on the latest W11 canary build.

I'm suprised Office 2013 was still updating --thought that had reached EOL ages ago. I remember when it was current I always had trouble with it -- kept office 2010 until 2019 available,

cheers
jimbo