Error: The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the command line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail

Hey guys,

I had the same error also when I tried to run one of my own program. I typed in "event log" in the Windows Help search and opened the event viewer from there.

In the "Summary of Administrative Events." Lo and be hold there the newest error was "side by side". THe message is as follows: "Activation context generation failed for "C:\apache\webapps\SNP\jsp\SNP_single.exe".

Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.DebugCRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.21022.8" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis."

So Basically the problem is I am missing some runtime assembly file I needed to run my program. This makes sense since I just uninstalled my visual studio. Guess I have to reinstall it....

You probably are missing some runtime file too, albeit different ones. So maybe going to event log and google the assembly stuff you see may help.

Best,

Jian

Hey jjgulfwarvet,

I got the same message as you when launching the OnLiveTV!! Did you find a fix?

Thanks in advance for sharing.

I am getting the error " "WINDOWS 7 error The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the command line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail." for every application that i try to launch.

Please help with a fix.

This came up not with windows 7 but when I tried to run OnLineTV and I got this message

Some more info I wanted to share... I went back through the logs and traced it as far back, looking to try to pinpoint when I started getting errors.  I noticed that at one point, the PC had reported 'unexpected shutdown' several times over.  I also noticed an error about a dll-file (I'm sorry, I'm writing this from memory... it was something like dllXXX. exe I believe).  There were some critical errors listed, and ultimately I found an early error which suggests a hardware failure.

But now I've run some diagnostics on the hard drive and everything comes back fine! could it be the hard drive had some failure, messed up the file structure, is ok now, but that's why I'm getting side-by-side errors?

All I know to do at this point is start over and re-install Win 7.  Its rather disappointing. I couldn't do a restore because the system in its current state doesn't show any restore points! (I am really good at keeping restore points... this probably burned me more than anything else! Where did my restore points go???!).  But I'm afraid for the hard drive, which is brand new and only about 5 months old.  Only one way to find out I guess.