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: This package replaces any previous 2015–2019 runtimes. It is backward-compatible but only one version of this unified runtime can be installed at a time. Requirements
The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable architecture is a cornerstone of modern Windows software execution. When developers compile applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, the resulting binaries depend on specific runtime libraries to execute properly on end-user machines.
