Issue: cannot successfully install Python 3 on Windows 7

Gisle Vanem gvanem at yahoo.no
Tue Sep 29 08:44:49 EDT 2015


Gilad Mayani wrote:

> I always get this message:
>
>     the program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer.

Is that really an 'I' in there? The .dll should really
be named:
   %SystemRoot%\system32\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

with an lower-case 'l'. (This .dll is itself a forwarder .dll to
ucrtbase.dll).

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--gv



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