runtime error microsoft visual c++ explorer.exe

I've got all sorts of development software loaded on my PC and started getting this error message. As mentioned above what worked for me was deleting every instance of the C++ DLL on my system and re-installing Visual Studio 2013. Even trying to chase down this error in the debugger didn't work, only re-installing those DLLs worked for me.

Thanks, Thanki. Your solution is unique and sounds like something that might actually work(No offence to the other answers).  I am going to try this and if it works, I'll indicate that I found it helpful.

I've got all sorts of development software loaded on my PC and started getting this error message. As mentioned above what worked for me was deleting every instance of the C++ DLL on my system and re-installing Visual Studio 2013. Even trying to chase down this error in the debugger didn't work, only re-installing those DLLs worked for me.

Could you tell me exactly how you did that?

I need to have visual studio 2008, 2010 and 2012 installed on my machine. I can't uninstall them just to solve this issue.

this error happens to me intermittently but only when I click on the "onedrive for business" synced folder on my win8.1. The forum support there pointed me to this thread.

I have a few C++ runtime packages as you can see:

Here is my original troubleshooting thread:

http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/345787.aspx

For me, I backed up my settings and all of the plugins I use in VS2013.  Then uninstalled VS2013.

Once I finished that I went into programs and features and uninstalled every C++ redistributable package I could.  The ones I couldn't uninstall I took the repair option, there were only a couple. When that was done I reinstalled VS2013, plugins and restored the settings.  I can't remember but I think I ran ccleaner to clean up the registry first. 

Everything has been working great since then.  I didn't mind reinstalling VS2013, I had been wanting to do that anyway just to clean everything up.  If you save your settings getting back up and running doesn't take to much time at all.

I think that you could get away without uninstalling Visual Studio and just deleting / repairing the C++ redistributable packages then cleaning up the registry but didn't try that.

Thank you Adeian. OK this is what I have done today, My visual studios were vanilla, so I have installed VS2008 SP1 and VS2012 upd 4, in addition to running windows update several times. I have also updated all the VC++ run times to the latest following this link:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977003?wa=wsignin1.0

I also got rid of the older ones. So here is how it looks now:

Unfortunately none of these has helped. I still get msvcrt.dll in system32 folder to throw a runtime error. Looking at the dll, it is of a much older version, and I can't touch it as it is used by windows:

Here is the windows error reporting (.wer) file content:

Version=1

EventType=APPCRASH

EventTime=130745781078311024

ReportType=2

Consent=1

UploadTime=130745781330571712

ReportFlags=524288

ReportIdentifier=9a8a9b79-ec8b-11e4-826f-d4bed923d95e

IntegratorReportIdentifier=9a8a9b78-ec8b-11e4-826f-d4bed923d95e

NsAppName=Explorer.EXE

Response.BucketId=20b0c6437ffe1353bad3259333aff75b

Response.BucketTable=4

Response.LegacyBucketId=86017478439

Response.type=4

Sig[0].Name=Application Name

Sig[0].Value=Explorer.EXE

Sig[1].Name=Application Version

Sig[1].Value=6.3.9600.17667

Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp

Sig[2].Value=54c6f7c2

Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name

Sig[3].Value=msvcrt.dll

Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version

Sig[4].Value=7.0.9600.17415

Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp

Sig[5].Value=545055fe

Sig[6].Name=Exception Code

Sig[6].Value=40000015

Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset

Sig[7].Value=0000000000057609

DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version

DynamicSig[1].Value=6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.4

DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID

DynamicSig[2].Value=1033

DynamicSig[22].Name=Additional Information 1

DynamicSig[22].Value=74e4

DynamicSig[23].Name=Additional Information 2

DynamicSig[23].Value=74e4625ac70fd46f3560b625e69b5e8a

DynamicSig[24].Name=Additional Information 3

DynamicSig[24].Value=723a

DynamicSig[25].Name=Additional Information 4

DynamicSig[25].Value=723a3ae4257997e6d3eacbf3877fa708

UI[2]=C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

LoadedModule[0]=C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

.........................................................................................

........... long list of loaded dlls .............................

.......................................................................................

LoadedModule[243]=C:\Windows\system32\acppage.dll

State[0].Key=Transport.DoneStage1

State[0].Value=1

FriendlyEventName=Stopped working

ConsentKey=APPCRASH

AppName=Windows Explorer

AppPath=C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

NsPartner=windows

NsGroup=windows8

ApplicationIdentity=56DA93BC9E3B753B94A0440F3A06BFDC

If anyone has ideas let me know. thanks.