[Qgis-user] Unable to start QGIS on windows

[Craig Leat]

Carlos Dávila wrote:
>> I have installed 1.3 using standalone installer in several windows
>> machines and in most of them it works fine, but I have two with XP Home
>> Edition SP2 where I only get the following message when I try to open
>> QGIS:

jef wrote:
> >From the download page:
>> Note: You may need to install the Microsoft C Runtime Libraries too. If QGIS
>> does not start, get the MSVC libs from here[1] and install them before trying to
>> run QGIS again.
>
> Might that be the problem?

Just to add that on my winxp pro machine I needed both the msvc++ 2005
and 2008 packages.

Craig