Installed Google Earth but will not open exception code: 0xc06d007e

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Fails to start at all.
2.
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What is the expected output or behavior? What do you see instead?
Nothing happens but the 'spinning circle' for a couple of seconds then nothing. 
 Checking Event Viewer shows:
Faulting application name: googleearth.exe, version: 7.1.2.2041, time stamp: 
0x525310f1
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18229, time stamp: 
0x51fb10c6
Exception code: 0xc06d007e

Which plugin version are you using?
7.1.2.2041

Which browsers and operating systems are affected?
Windows 7 SP1, newly reinstalled with latest drivers.  Use Chrome as main 
default browser.

Please provide any additional information (code snippets/links) below.

Tried running in Normal,  OpenGL mode and DX mode - no difference.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by johnwrey...@outlook.com on 18 Dec 2013 at 8:46

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Sorry, but this is meant for the Google Earth Plugin, not the Google Earth 
desktop application. For that, go to 
https://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/list

Original comment by chris.ry...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2014 at 11:07