Noel Borthwick Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 We have discovered that there is a serious bug in the latest Microsoft VCRedist installer. The Cakewalk installer includes this to install various files that are required by the application. The latest iteration of this file has a bug where if you run it for the first time it works. However if you run it a second time it removes several files from the system32 folder that are used by our application and many others. The most typical symptom would be that our installer fails to register CW130Auto.dll (error code 3) and after that the application will fail to launch. Fortunately we have not shipped a version of CbB that uses this VCRedist yet. However if you install the latest redistributables manually from the Microsoft website you will most likely run into this issue so please be aware of it. Here is a thread where several people have reported the issue. Please upvote the post if you have a Microsoft account so that they escalate the issue. If you have the problem you can typically fix it by running the vcredist manually a second time. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Upvoted. We'll see how long it takes Microsoft to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Microsoft have currently marked this issue as "Fixed - Pending Release" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 This issue has been marked "Closed - Fixed" and Microsoft has provided a download for the fixed redistributable. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Ha they responded to my request yesterday. Glad they posted it. We’ll test it today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Here are the release notes. “X64 VC Redist no longer removes runtime files when run with /installer /passive switches.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Stanton Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 i just updated my VS2019 yesterday afternoon as the update came through on my work machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 We've verified that the latest version they posted works OK now and doesn't remove files anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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