Error starting VS2013: the application is unable to start correctly 0xc0000077b

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This error is generate by devenv.exe, the IDE app.

  • Directory of D:\ProgramFiles\Common7\IDE

  • 10/04/2013 11:43 PM 7,680 devenv.com

However, I can start VS2013 correctly by first running the "vs2013 command" prompt,
browsing to d:\ProgramFiles\common7\ide,
and starting it from the command line with .\devenv.com

This only works with the vs2013 command tool. The usual command window generates the same error message.

VS2013 then starts up and I can build any solutions, no problem. Just cant start it using the "win" key

VS2017 does not have this problem.

I attempted to look at the "properties" of the VS2013 start up but there are no properties. The right mouse click simply lists solutions, same as VS2017.

This behavior only started recently after one or more of the following:

Dec 11 or later---
feature 1909 & dotnet
EVGA precision x1
NVidia 441.66 including SDK for CUDA andOpenCl
GitHub desktop upgrade
plus all the usual unwanted crap that comes in all the time and is never used and hasn't caused problems in the past.


==========tried a trouble shooter===

Installed "depends.exe" and tried to have it open devenv.exe but it hung. That app may not even be compatible with Win 10 anyway. Supposedly it would tell me if a DLL was missing or was 32 instead of 64 but I don't think that is the problem.

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