I've just installed Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 in Windows XP SP3
When trying to run MS word or any other office app (Excel, PowerPoint), I get the following message: this application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect
This also happens with other applications, for instance, Acrobat Reader.
A bit of Googling around this error message suggests that this might be due to a mismatch of library versions. In fact, most of the articles and forum messages I found mention a programmer writing an application in Visual C++ and sending it to someone else, who then runs into that error. This is hardly my case !
I looked into Office's files and the manifest file for Excel suggests that Office is trying to use Microsoft VC80.CRT version 8.0.50608.0. However, in my Windows System folder, I can only find the assemblies for 8.0.50727.762
My next step will be trying to find version 8.0.50608.0. How can I find and download it ?
Best Answer
Actually it appears Microsoft has provided the 8.0.50727.42 installer here. No luck so far in finding a download for 8.0.50608.0.