WAMP won't turn green. And the VCRUNTIME140.dll error

Question

WAMP won\'t turn green. It was working fine a couple of weeks ago. When looking at other answers on this topic, a lot said to install services in Apache.

When I do t

Answer 1

You need to install some Visual C++ packages BEFORE installing WAMP (if you have installed then you must uninstall and reinstall).

You need: VC9, VC10, VC11, VC13 and VC14

In readme.txt of wampserver 3 (on SourceForge) you can find the links.

Be careful! If you use a 64-bit OS you need to install both versions of each package.