Turns out there’s two hurdles to launching Quickbooks as they used some old Windows dependencies
- Internet Explorer needed for DLL/ActiveX/DCOM
- XPS Writer needed for PDF libraries
In later versions of Windows 10, IE11 was turned off by default, and 21H2 made it difficult to re-enable it by hiding it from Windows’s (optional) features checkboxes, so it needs to be enabled through command line.
If you do not enable Microsoft’s XPS Writer feature, you’ll get this error message about PDF on start, though XPS is Microsoft challenger to PDF so they are not the same thing
