side-by-side configuration error Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 12:20 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sanderloz (3 messages posted) I am running Windows Vista Business (upgraded from an XP Dell Machine) with all updates. Whenever I download and try to install Yahoo Messenger 9.0, 8.1, or even older versions of this program, I'm getting the following: "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail" This sign appears when I activate the *.exe file (in this case yahoomessenger.exe). I googled this problem, only very few and confuse answers associated to Microsoft® Visual Studio® and .NET Framework came out. I'm not very smart... As a note, I tweaked Vista to get a better performance. Should have stayed with XP... Any comments and help will be greatly appreciated. Sander. Responses to this message: re: side-by-side configuration error (Charlie Hadden: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 3:45 pm) re: side-by-side configuration error (Sanderloz: Friday, March 7, 2008 at 7:42 am) All messages in this thread [show all] side-by-side configuration error (Sanderloz: Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 12:20 pm) re: side-by-side configuration error (Charlie Hadden: Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 3:45 pm) re: side-by-side configuration error (Sanderloz: Fri, Mar 7, 2008, 7:42 am) re: side-by-side configuration error (Sanderloz: Fri, Mar 7, 2008, 7:50 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum