[Solved] I need some help to install python on my old PC

Question

Hey There Sololearn! I've got a serious problem that I wanted to fix it.

So I've downloaded and installed python 3.5(I downloaded the older version so that it could run kivy and python on my old computer) for my computer to code python but when I tried to run the program I've got this error "The program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem" after that I searched on internet and got solution to fix the problem by installing "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015" I tried to download from the website and tried to install it but it gives me completely different error "Setup failed 0x80240017 - Unspecified error", Now here's I'm stuck now. any help to fix the problem?

This is probably my last chance to run it before I could go to dark side or I completely uninstall it.

My Old PC specs(can't afford a new pc since I'm a kid at 14):
OS: Windows 7 32-bit
Processor: Pentinum 4
RAM: 1GB

Answer 1

Okay, So I tried installing pycharm on my old pc and it didn't worked unfortunately. So I started thinking about running the python on sublime text 3 and it worked! I finally setup the environment for python.

Thank you Infinity and Learn11 for helping me to fix this serious issue(although your ideas didn't worked out but at least you guys tried to help me)

Answer 2

Hi
Looks like you need to update your Windows 7 (specifically install KB2999226 of Microsoft) until there are no more new updates available
Check out detailed solutions here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33265663/api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0-dll-is-missing-when-opening-microsoft-office-file

Answer 3

Learn11 Yes, I've downloaded the correct bit for my OS and still getting that error.

Infinity I was able to install windows 7 service pack 1 successfully. but gonna try once more. will tell you about it a bit more later.

Answer 4

Infinity the solution didn't work unfortunately. it gives me "The specified service does not exist as an installed service."

Answer 5

Learn11 I tried to install all the runtime packages on my computer. it successfully installed the older versions 2005, 2008, 2011.... but while installing new versions 2015, 2017, 2019 it gave me an error
and stopped installing.

before you gave me an answer I tried to install separate DDLs from somewhere and python 3.5 successfully worked! same for Python IDLE but it doesn't run nor show an error now....

Answer 6

Learn11 I desperately want to code python on my computer and it didn't mess the visual C++ as It creates the same error as the last time "Setup failed 0x80240017 - Unspecified error"

Answer 7

Try virtualization. Maybe that works for you. Try any of the VMs (hyper v, virtualbox, etc).
Some may works for Windows 7. Google it and hope you get what you need.

Answer 8

Have you downloaded the correct Microsoft visual studio redistributable i.e which matches your specs like x86 bit and "for windows 7"?

Answer 9

For latest installation of visual c++ sometimes you need to have older versions of it too. Make sure you have it. From 2005 to 2015. If not download it from here. And install according to x86 bit.
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

Answer 10

Coding Kitty Pasting downloaded dlls can create mess especially in visual c++. Can you clarify the error you got while installing visual 2015.... Is it different from last one?(0x80240017)

Answer 11

Coding Kitty You can consider installing pycharm if you really want python, either way you can continue to find the fix.

Link to download pycharm:
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/download/index.html