If your XIN is blank and your preferences are not loading and you want to use the solution described in the link below but cant download the .msi because the
"msxml.msi" is no longer hosted on http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id…
It appears someone may have incorrectly modified the _USTN_SYSTEMROOT variable.
This is supposed to point to C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\System and typically gets its parent folder from the _USTN_WORKSPACEROOT variable…