Int WINAPI _tWinMain(HINSTANCE instance, HINSTANCE prevInstance, LPTSTR cmdLine, int cmdShow) To demonstrate the problem, consider the C++ program below. If they’re not present in WinSxS then the errors above are thrown in the user’s face. This tells Windows that the application can’t run without those DLLs being present. When a binary component links against a DLL, such as MS’s CRT, an entry for that dependant DLL is specified in the component’s manifest. I’m not going to go into detail about WinSxS in this article, but the short description is: it’s an attempt at alleviating DLL hell. The fact is that the first error message above is useless, and the second is useless to everyone except those who know all about WinSxS ( side-by-side). This does tell us a little bit more about the problem, but not a lot more. Please see the application event log for more detail. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Informative isn’t it! What about if you fire up the same application on Windows Vista?

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Have you ever fired up an application on Windows XP and got the following error? This came up in conversation the other day with a couple of workmates and it prompted me to revisit the issue. I’ve been meaning to blog about this for well over a year now, but for some reason I never got round to it.

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