[SOLVED] Excel not launch but run in task manager

If you experience on excel issue, unable to launch but when you check from task manager you can see the file is running.

To solve, click Menu and search Windows Security.

Navigate to App & Browser control > Exploit Protection Settings > Program Settings. Search for EXCEL.EXE. Click Edit and turn off the SimExec settings.

If your environment using Intune/Microsoft Endpoint Manager, we can push the configuration to disable the setting via Security Baseline profile by Endpoint Manager. Copy xml file to notepad and change EnableRopSimExec="false" to disable the settings.

A very good news to the affected user, the hotfix has been released on the latest versions to fix this issue. Please update your Office client app to the latest version.