Openoffice, Abiword and Cornice fail to launch. This situation looks pretty similar to yours.
After I click Abiword icon, the following applications were launched in the background successively.
1, AbiWordPortable.exe
2, C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntvdm.exe -f -i3 -o
And then these application terminate, nothing happen in the foreground.
read my answer in the original thread:
https://portableapps.com/node/22869#comment-144439
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