I started cleaning up my computer and removed some old libraries that I do not need for software development anymore. But it seems that I accidentally removed one library that is still required by some other software or system tools. After starting my computer I received the error:
How to fix the error?
After some research, I found out that the library Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 is missing. I remembered that I removed this library (amongst others like Visual C++…2008, Visual C++…2010, Visual C++…2013), so it was an “easy” fix to just reinstall the package from:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
What is the C++ Redistributable Package?
The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install runtime components of Visual C++ libraries that are required to run applications developed using Visual Studio 2012 on a computer that does not have Visual Studio 2012 installed. These packages install runtime components of the C Runtime (CRT), Standard C++, ATL, MFC, C++ AMP, and OpenMP libraries.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
After the installation, the error message was not shown anymore.
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