COM Errors are suddenly plaguing QuickBooks 2016 users. Multiple users are reporting the dreaded COM Error when making use of QuickBooks 2016 Desktop products, including Pro, Premier and Enterprise.

When a Com Error pops up, QuickBooks will crash without saving the work you are performing.

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Com Error (wide)
Sometimes you could be opening a particular list element (like a client) or a transaction (like a vendor bill). You might be wanting to email a transaction to a customer or simply just trying to print a study.

I recently experienced QuickBooks Com Error Crash Enterprise while attempting to view an Invoice "on screen" within the GUI (graphic user interface).

We saw Com Errors extensively back in QuickBooks 2014 versions. Intuit subsequently released an item update that resolved those issues.

Then, back in 2015, soon after the production of QuickBooks 2016 Desktop products, we started seeing Com Errors again. This time they certainly were related to SDK application connections or data exchanges. Intuit not only worked with an SDK developer to outline a "temporary manual fix," but it built an answer because of this error into a "critical fix" pushed update of QuickBooks.

A few months ago, I experienced Com Errors with a couple of my QuickBooks Enterprise 2017 installations after a Windows update. When I rolled back the Windows update, the Com Errors went away.

Some individuals report that updating QuickBooks into the most recent maintenance release resolves the difficulties. Others will say to you to perform a Windows’ repair to fix Com Errors.

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Windows Repair or Removal of QuickBooks
Still, other "techno-types" will tell you to execute:

a Windows elimination of the QuickBooks application, and then
download the QuickBooks "clean install" Utility, then
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Intuit QB Clean tool download
run the "clean install utility," accompanied by
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QB Clean Install Utility
a whole re-installation of QuickBooks to solve Com Errors.
In my QuickBooks technology practice, we have unearthed that Com Errors are many times connected with some form of corruption which is created within the "Windows User" account, regardless of the type/level of Windows user.

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Create New Windows User
In those cases, we discovered that creating a brand new Windows User using the pc experiencing the Com Errors within QuickBooks was the most effective solution. As soon as you login towards the computer utilising the new Windows User account, login to QuickBooks and discover in the event that you obtain the same result.

Of course, Com Errors could be just the excuse you are considering to obtain both a new computer in addition to newest QuickBooks Desktop version since 2018 was just released.