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Win2k3 SP2 x64 won't inst


Getting an error:
"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

It's not installed so reinstalling won't work.

I installed from the same file (deimos-client-0.57.exe) on Win7 x64 without problems

Sorry, decided to read through the forum and found this post: http://deimos-project.net/community/forums/read/81

Problem solved.

I am having this issue with the new beta client. Installing Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable did not work for me. It installed perfectly on Vista, but on my Windows XP Pro SP3 machine it won't run. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

The install worked, but when I try to run the program I get the error message "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

The missing DLL-problem. The new client needs VS2008 SP1 Redis

But before you do that, can you look in the Event Viewer (Start -> Run -> "eventvwr.msc" -> Application) which DLL is missing?
Dependeny Walker is very helpful in that department. Just download it, run it and open deimos-ui.exe with it. You'll see a list of DLL's and the missing ones in red.

Ok, there were a few things...

DWMAPI.DLL -- "This had a yellow Question Mark by it"
MPR.DLL -- "This was in Red"
SHLWAPI.DLL -- "This was in Red"

I have installed the C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable you posted and all is good now. Thanks!!

I also released a new version of Deimos with a few fixes. deimos-desktop-0.8.07_x86.exe

At the moment Virtualbox really likes to crash my computer when running a 64-bit OS so I can't produce 64-bit binaries yet...