My Asus fx504 laptop is about 3 months old. When I woke it up from sleep mode the other day, whenever I tried to open a program I was met with;
"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."
This occurs with almost every single program on my computer with the exception of Chrome for some reason.
Some solutions I have tried already were:
Finally I tried to reset my entire PC because I was sick of the error but in the reset process, it failed and sent me back to windows. I tried this multiple times, as have I with all the other things mentioned.
Please someone send me in the right direction here, I'm running out of ideas.
"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."
This occurs with almost every single program on my computer with the exception of Chrome for some reason.
Some solutions I have tried already were:
■ running /sfc scannow in cmd prompt which failed during the process.
■ I also tried check which specific c++ redistributable was missing under the advice of the internet by going into the windows error thing and check exactly the error for any given program that i was trying to open but it did not give the info needed.
■ I tried to install new c++ redistributables but when i download them and try and install them the same side by side configuration error appears when I try and open them.
■ I tried to uninstall old c++ redistributables but they all said "this program doesnt appear to exist, would you like to remove the program from the list" which if I agreed to did nothing and it stayed on the programs list.
Finally I tried to reset my entire PC because I was sick of the error but in the reset process, it failed and sent me back to windows. I tried this multiple times, as have I with all the other things mentioned.
Please someone send me in the right direction here, I'm running out of ideas.