MSI Afterburner failed to start

Discussion in 'MSI AfterBurner Application Development Forum' started by noctiscepheus, Jan 4, 2017.

  1. noctiscepheus

    noctiscepheus Guest

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    I just installed MSI Afterburner in a new laptop and this message pops up:

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    C:\Program Files\MSI Afterburner\MSIAfterburner.exe

    The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.
    "

    please help me
     
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    Make sure C++ redistribs are installed etc
     
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    The installed ones on my laptop are 2010, 2012, and 2013. Both x86 and x64. Am i missing something?
     
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    I believe MSI Afterburner uses 2008.

    Each generation of Visual C++ Redistributables are their own entity, and an application uses whataver it's compiled against.
     
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    Tried the installer. Didnt install the 2008 one. Manually downloaded and installed the 2008 one. An error popped up.

    "
    Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC90.ATL,version="9.0.21022.8",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="amd64",type="win32".Please refer to Hlp and Support for more information. HResult: 0x80070002.
    "

    What now? I can't seem to make it work
     
  7. eutos

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    I hope this might help. I disabled the windows module installer services(since it is a service run together with windows update service )so when I enabled back the service and reinstall the program that cause side by side error. The program run like normal with no error. So my conclusion is that windows module installer service is important and must let it running and don't disable it again. Oh and the program that had the error was msi afterburner.
     
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    thank you sir this fixed the problem and now msi ab works normally
     

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