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Armory won´t start.

The logfile C:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQT.exe.log could not be opened [Errno 13] Permission denied C:\\Program Files (x86\Armory\ArmoryQT.exe.log

Any ideas?

There's not much info available but an indication of permission issue.

Try running Armory as Administrator.
By Either:

• A. Right-click 'ArmoryQt.exe' and select "Run as administrator". (has to be done every time you open Armory)
  or
  
• B. Right-click 'ArmoryQt.exe' and select "Properties", Under 'Compatibility', find "Run this program as administrator" and save. (permanent)

If it didn't work, try to install Armory somewhere else and not in Program Files.

Sounds like an old version, try to update to 0.96.5: https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ArmoryQt.py", line 42, in <module>
  File "armoryengine\ALL.pyc", line 8, in <module>
  File "armoryengine\ArmoryUtils.pyc", line 262, in <module>
  File "encodings\utf_8.pyc", line 16, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 10: invalid continuation byte

There are some weird characters in your user name most likely (or at least in the path to AppData/Roaming/Armory). You need to use custom pathing to run Armory and Core from an ascii compliant location.

There was letter "ä" on my windows user name.
Solved.