[Qgis-user] error message - retry

[Gary Sherman]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Michiel van Hasselt
<michiel.vanhasselt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> Very new to this forum. However, I have had Q-GIS v 1.4 (stand alone)
> running on my laptop for about 4 weeks, upgraded from 1.3 without any
> problems. OS = Windows XP
> Today, out of the blue I received the following error message (not sure if
> the attachment will come through).
> "this application has failed to start because the application configuration
> is incorrect"
> any ideas how I can solve this problem? Have tried to re-install, have un
> installed and installed again, and even when installing the older version
> 1.3 I get the same message.
> Thanks,

You may need the Microsoft runtime libraries (although not sure why
since it worked before).

>From the QGIS 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 and install them
before trying to run QGIS again."

The link for libs is:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en

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