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How to install vcruntime140.dll without admin rights?

I am looking to install this library on an older microsoft surface 3 tablet. For some reason, the alpine mail client requires this dll (I'm not using Python).

The file is illegal or something? Or illegal to share? That seems questionable, but is what the answers on that question indicate.

I have admin access to Windows 10.

per:

https://www.dll-files.com/vcruntime140.dll.html

this looks to be related to installing C++ -- which isn't going to work on a tablet. (Or so I'd expect.)

DavidPostill
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Nicholas Saunders
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You can't selectively drop a .dll from a Microsoft (or others) runtime library into %windir%\system32 or the bin folder of an application, and expect an application to work.

vcruntime140.dll is a component of the Microsoft C++ runtime library. Each of the DLL's in this library will be inter-dependant, meaning you'll be playing a game of whack-a-mole for the next few days, dropping in DLL's it depends on.

To prove this, open vcruntime140.dll with Depends.exe/Depenedancy Walker and await the results. It'll show you the intricate web woven between the DLL's in the library.

[I'll update the answer with the output of depends.exe, once it's finished its analysis]

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