Avast don't work now

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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From some weeks Avast don’t open&work; the message error is:
“The application has failed to start because the side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details.” I don’t find a event log; please help. Thanks.

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Do you have any other security programs installed…

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Thanks,

  1. I had AVG from many years, without conflicts; today I uninstalled AVG.
  2. I had also Malwarebytes but this software work only on request, it is not active.
  3. I uninstalled Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable and reinstalled the next day.
  4. Unfortunately any positive effect. I suppose a personal error but only the devil know this.
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today I uninstalled AVG.

Did you use the AVG removal tool with the uninstall, and got rid of any remnants that may have been left?

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Yes, any remnants; I can not get rid of the error message with side-by-side configuration. And I suppose a more dangerous error but I din’t know.

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Googling the error message @ microsoft answers gives this:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/error-the-application-has-failed-to-start-because/df019c0d-746e-42d0-ad68-465e18e3f3ef

Assuming your operating system you run is Win7.

EDIT: link to what is side by side configuration error here?: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/43681/Side-by-Side-Configuration-Incorrect

Not really os dependent. C++ libraries must be installed correctly for this to work properly.

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Thank you; I dowloaded today and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable. After the reinstallation I finally managed to restart normal Avast.

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You are welcome.

Glad this worked.