Is it possible to install a newer version of Audacity for a computer that does not have the update that brought about api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll? If so, what would that entail?Ģ. Most of my computers would be lucky to be running at half of their original performance after eight MONTHS.ġ. It is still working perfectly fine after eight years of service. I REALLY don’t want to update that computer. Per my research, that update was either called or had a feature called Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015. I did some research, and copied that file from my System32 on my laptop, brought it over to that computer… nope! I now get a message saying that an error prevented Audacity from opening.Īfter researching more, it seems the api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll file comes with a Windows update from 2015 - which that computer would not have. I installed it, went to open it, and got the “Your computer is missing api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll” message.

To update, I uninstalled that version (and thus I can’t know what it was) and copied the installer of the most recent version onto a flash drive. I probably downloaded Audacity sometime between November of 2013 and February of 2014. As I mentioned earlier, nothing on that computer has been updated since the late spring or early summer of 2014. Unlike Windows, I like the Audacity updates. Recently, though, I wanted to install the newer version of Audacity on it. I have terrible luck with computers - I’ve been through about seven since 2014, all of which have crashed repeatedly and become unusable as I have updated them - so I am trying to keep that one completely disconnected as it works perfectly for what I needed to do (recording instruments and converting files with Audacity). That said, I don’t WANT it connected to the Internet, and therein lies my problem. I moved it from my bedroom, where the router/modem is, into my studio on the other side of the house, where a cable doesn’t reach. It’s been disconnected from the Internet since 2014. I have an old Windows 7 computer which I use for my recording.

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