Fixing applications failing to start with error “api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll not available”

Yesterday I faced this issue while trying to launch few applications on my windows 7 PC.

Error while launching an app
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.

Solution

The missing dll api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is installed with a Windows update. To resolve this issue, download and install the Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows from Microsoft.

This update applies to the following operating systems:

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows 8.1
• Windows RT 8.1
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows 8
• Windows RT
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
• Windows 7 SP1
• Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• Windows Vista SP2