Windows – getting “the application is failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect”

Trying to find out what the Circular Kernel Context Logger is, I found this article in which somebody says:

Nothing to worry about, the system repeatedly tries to start the logger session until it succeeds. A temporary failure to start mostly (but not always) happens during a system state transition from standby -> running.

If this doesn't fit your case, this other article states:

The system state is a set of kernel events generated by taking a snapshot of the Circular Kernel Context Logger.

It's then possible (but improbable in my opinion) that the problem is related to system snap-shots. You might then verify in Control Panel / System / System protection, that everything seems well defined.

If none of the above ideas are useful, my only other idea would be to do a system repair.

The problem is probably that msvcp50.dll requires one (or more) additional dlls to work. If you don't have these then the registration will fail.

I'm not in a position to check what extra dlls it might need at the moment, but I would be very wary of downloading this from a non Microsoft site. You don't know what you might be getting.