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

Anonymous
2010-02-07T22:12:03+00:00

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.

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.

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Anonymous
2011-08-15T20:08:54+00:00

Error message: "Side-by-side configuration is incorrect"

The machine is missing the correct C++ runtime components for your type of system. (x86 or x64).

Installing the following update resolved the issue.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package for (x64)

 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=BA9257CA-337F-4B40-8C14-157CFDFFEE4E&displaylang=en

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd512d9e-43c8-4655-81bf-9350143d5867

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-05-27T19:01:53+00:00

    Same issue here; almost all program stops functioning. Ironically, the fix suggested elsewhere about (re)installing a C++ library may work but I can't execute the .exe-file that I downloaded through one of the few programs starting (IE x64). Trying to do so only yields the same error message.

    I've done a disk check and a memory check, and I'm not seeing any problems with either. I did get a lot of error messages regarding the registry entries for several files on my system drive but exactly what those consisted of or which they were, I do not know.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-04-16T14:35:50+00:00
    • I get this error today (2011/04/16).
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  3. Anonymous
    2011-06-04T20:40:14+00:00

    Same issue here; almost all program stops functioning. Ironically, the fix suggested elsewhere about (re)installing a C++ library may work but I can't execute the .exe-file that I downloaded through one of the few programs starting (IE x64). Trying to do so only yields the same error message.

    I've done a disk check and a memory check, and I'm not seeing any problems with either. I did get a lot of error messages regarding the registry entries for several files on my system drive but exactly what those consisted of or which they were, I do not know.

    Having exact same problems.  Does anyone have a solution?

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-13T18:43:04+00:00

    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

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