IDA Free 9.3 0xc0000142 on Windows 10

IDA General Support
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Hi, I have followed the install guide at Install IDA | Hex-Rays Docs to install IDA Free 9.3 on Windows 10. It looks like IDA requires Windows 8+ so I expected this to work.

Attempting to start IDA after install, I get error dialog “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.” I don’t see any extra information in Windows Event Log.

I don’t see any dependencies listed at the guide linked above so I’m not sure what I’m missing.

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Hello,

Installing the latest MSVC redistributable should fix this issue.

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Thanks, that did it. I didn’t consider that because for CRT/VCredist issues i expect a DLL name e.g. “MSVCP140.dll” to appear instead of this generic failure :smile: maybe one of:

  1. the guide could mention vcredist?

  2. the installer could detect missing vcredist?

edit: i often prepare a VM for analysis so it is not often likely that this vcredist will be installed ahead of time

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There was an issue in the installer that failed to install the bundled VC redist. It will be fixed in the next version.