Shoutbox

Hi, Mathguy.

**To start with, I should make it clear that I'm not a developed or programmer. I have a smattering of introductory C++, but for all intents and purposes I'm applying my elementary knowledge of Microsoft's SxS in trying to solve these problems.**

I had both 2005 and 2008 Redistributables installed as well.

To my knowledge, the 2005 Redistributables don't write to the same DLLs that the 2008 redistributables do (ie. the VC90 folders under Winsxs), so I don't anticipate that a true conflict exists.

However, after numerous attempts to solve these problems myself, I decided to attempt a "tabula rasa" approach with the DLLs and just delete all of the Redistributables and Windows Live Essentials. That worked for me and appears to have worked for most others.

If you've already attempted this, I would suggest uninstalling VS 2005 and 2008 as well so that you can rebuild the DLL cache by reinstalling with the hope that the manifest for WLM will identify the correct side by side configuration.

These errors seem to be almost spontaneous in nature. I can't determine the origins of mine, and, to the best of my knowledge, those that I've helped with this had it spontaneously occur to them as it did to me. Perhaps an update was released on through WLE that created an issue in the WLM manifest?

Let me know if this helped.

-BA