It’s free. It’s safe. And it stops those annoying “missing .dll” errors.
This is not a mistake, nor is it bloatware. This redundancy is a deliberate architectural decision designed to protect your system.
This error implies that the application you are trying to run was built using Visual Studio 2015, 2017, or 2019 (as MSVCP140.dll is associated with those versions). To fix this:
🚨 PSA for Windows users: