Error: The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect

When I tries to run Glary Utilities 5.46, the following error message appears. '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 had posted a question in Microsoft Community and did what the support engineer said, including repairing corrupted files with RestoreHealth and re-installation in compatible mode, but the side by side configuration error still appears. What else can I do?

The following have already been installed. http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=e012ca9a-6548-47ad-a7e9-a0777b03746e

windows-10

Matthew Wai

Posted 2016-03-26T05:17:34.220

Reputation: 481

Have you tried uninstalling all msvc packages, and re-install all of them in ascending order(msvc 2005 to 2013)?, because this way solved the same issue for me., Also, If your OS is 64-bit and you have to install 32 and 64-bit packages. – Ĭsααc tիε βöss – 2016-03-26T08:38:55.470

Yes, I already tried that before asking a question here, but it did not help. However, the problem has already been fixed by a clean installation of Windows, which took a shorter time than searching for an alternative solution had. – Matthew Wai – 2016-03-27T14:58:35.137

– RBT – 2018-04-06T14:45:01.203

Answers

This happens when a required Visual C++ Runtime is missing. Start the Command prompt with admin rights and run this command:

SxsTrace Trace -logfile:SxsTrace.etl

Now run Glary Utilities and go back to the command prompt press ENTER to generate the SxsTrace.etl. Now type this:

sxstrace Parse -logfile:SxSTrace.etl -outfile:SxSTrace.txt

Now open the SxSTrace.txt trace and look which VC++ runtime is missing.

magicandre1981

Posted 2016-03-26T05:17:34.220

Reputation: 86 560

The problem has already been fixed by a clean installation of Windows, which took a shorter time than searching for an alternative solution had.

Anyway, thanks for your help.. – Matthew Wai – 2016-03-27T14:55:08.057

Hi See if you can help me with THIS

– Siddharth Rout – 2016-09-21T10:52:34.280

1This helped me a lot, but as a quick aside - it didn't indicate a missing Visual C++ Runtime in my case. It was actually malformed XML in the config file. Which made this a very misleading error. – Chris Berger – 2017-10-03T17:53:34.967

In my case, I see ERROR: Cannot resolve reference Microsoft.VC90.MFC,processorArchitecture="x86". After short googling, I installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) and that fixes it. – Rosdi – 2018-04-08T10:41:23.057

@Rosdi yes VC90 is 2008, while VC80 is 2005. – magicandre1981 – 2018-04-08T16:14:52.720

I faced this issue while trying to launch winMerge diff tool. I checked the solution here:

Method 1:

Kindly download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package from below given link and check if it helps:

Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013

http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=40784

But when I ran the installer, I realized that Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package was already installed on my computer and it was asking for repair instead. To be on safe side I just ran the repair wizard once.

Then I uninstalled and reinstalled WinMerge tool as mentioned in this youtube video. After that I rebooted my computer then finally winMerge worked smoothly.

RBT

Posted 2016-03-26T05:17:34.220

Reputation: 324