Error: The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect

When I tries to run Glary Utilities 5.46, the following error message appears. 'The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the command line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail'

I had posted a question in Microsoft Community and did what the support engineer said, including repairing corrupted files with RestoreHealth and re-installation in compatible mode, but the side by side configuration error still appears. What else can I do?

The following have already been installed.

3 Answers

This happens when a required Visual C++ Runtime is missing. Start the Command prompt with admin rights and run this command:

SxsTrace Trace -logfile:SxsTrace.etl

Now run Glary Utilities and go back to the command prompt press ENTER to generate the SxsTrace.etl. Now type this:

sxstrace Parse -logfile:SxSTrace.etl -outfile:SxSTrace.txt

Now open the SxSTrace.txt trace and look which VC++ runtime is missing.

I faced this issue while trying to launch winMerge diff tool. I checked the solution here:

Method 1:

Kindly download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package from below given link and check if it helps:

Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013

But when I ran the installer, I realized that Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package was already installed on my computer and it was asking for repair instead. To be on safe side I just ran the repair wizard once.

Then I uninstalled and reinstalled WinMerge tool as mentioned in this youtube video. After that I rebooted my computer then finally winMerge worked smoothly.

I faced same error for Chrome.exe yesterday, after one day now i found the reason

I also try

• uninstall and reinstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2013,2015 Redistributable
• Edit some registry values (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\Winners)

but not solved

In Chrome application folder a file should exists (removed) that 92.0.4505.0.manifest named

Its name is same as your application version, like <APP_VERSION>.manifest

That its content should be

<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'> <assemblyIdentity name='92.0.4505.0' version='92.0.4505.0' type='win32'/> <file name='chrome_elf.dll'/>
</assembly>

Now its works fine !