Audacity Error on Startup

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Kooplamedvel
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Audacity Error on Startup

Post by Kooplamedvel » Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:25 pm

When I start Audacity, it gives me an error that says,"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem". I did reinstall it, but it gave me the same error.

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Re: Audacity Error on Startup

Post by Gale Andrews » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:36 am

Sorry for the problem. Are you on Windows XP Service Pack 2 or earlier? And is it 1.3.14 Beta that you have the problem with?

Please follow the instructions here to download and install
"Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package":
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 745#p45745 .

Although that thread is old, the fix seems to solve the few current instances we've seen of this issue.

Be sure to get the "x86" package for 32-bit Windows or the "x64" package for 64-bit Windows.

To check if you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, right-click over Computer or My Computer and choose "Properties". If 64-bit is not mentioned, you have 32-bit.

Please let us know if this helps. Here is the current 1.3.14 installer if you need it again:
http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.14.exe .


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