Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2017 installs run-time components of Visual C++ libraries. These components are required to run C++ applications that are developed using Visual Studio 2015-2017 and link dynamically to Visual C++ libraries. The packages can be used to run such applications on a computer even if it does not have Visual Studio 2015-2017 installed. These packages also install run-time components of C Runtime (CRT), Standard C++, MFC, C++ AMP, and OpenMP libraries.
The Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2017 consists of files vcruntime140.dll, msvcp140.dll, vcomp140.dll, vcamp140.dll, mfc140.dll and other.
## Notes
- [Supported Operating Systems](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/system-requirements#microsoft-visual-c-2015-2019-redistributable-system-requirements): Windows 10, Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 (with KB2919355), Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 SP1 (with KB3033929) / Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Vista SP2 / Server 2008 SP2, Windows XP SP3 / Windows Server 2003 SP2
- On some systems, if KB2999226 is installed as a dependency of this package, the computer may need to be restarted before the installation of this package will succeed.
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