For some time now, shortly after my Windows 10 laptop starts up, I have been getting the following error message from Windows.NET Framework:
"Unhandled exception in the application. Click" Next "to ignore the error and continue the application. If you click" Exit ", the application will exit immediately.
Invalid XML document. The document has no root element. "
… What is this error message about? What is "Microsoft.NET Framework" anyway (I never downloaded it myself) and how do I get rid of this error message?
What is the name of the XML file is not there?
"Details" says something about "System.Xml.XmlException". Whatever that means. I'm not a computer expert.
Reinstall the .net framework.
.net framework is necessary so that .net programs (and you have a lot of them with Windows) can be executed
Can I then delete the old one? Where can I find the old one? How does this error message come about? What are .net programs?
TheFamousSpy has already written the most sensible and logical solution
Hmm ok Funny. That comes out of nowhere…
Use the repair tool from this page for this:
What's the point of reinstalling .NET?
The chance that there's a bug in it that happens to lead to that very bug is somewhere close to 0.
The XML is not valid, so either the program has an error or a file has been damaged by the user, in both cases a .NET reinstallation does not help.
I know the mistake and how it comes about, but there's not much you can do or all options are time-consuming and / or complex.
Find out which program is causing this, you may be able to find out from the Windows event log, where every error should be listed. The developer can best help, or you can reinstall it - but make sure that everything is really deleted, this is not always the case. Alternatively, you can search for the file and delete or repair it if necessary.
Reinstalling is just a simple deletion of all files so that the program (hopefully) rebuilds everything. You can of course do this yourself, but it is time-consuming to find the broken file.
If you can find it: If it is not empty, it probably has something at the beginning of the file that is not XML. If you remove that, it could work again. If it is empty, you can simply delete it, you don't make it worse and if necessary the program will recognize it and create an intact file.
It can of course also be the case that the file does not exist at all but is in RAM or a database. In that case, there's nothing you can do or hope that the reinstallation removes the root cause.
