I can presently no longer open microsoft works 2003. I receive a message: the application has failed to start because the side to side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. Please kindly advised. Thanks.

Error message: "Side-by-side configuration is incorrect" The machine is missing the correct C++ runtime components for your type of system. (x86 or x64). Installing the following update resolved the issue. Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package for (x64) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=BA9257CA-337F-4B40-8C14-157CFDFFEE4E&displaylang=en Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84 Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd512d9e-43c8-4655-81bf-9350143d5867 Regards,MCP | MCTS | MCITP