title: Visual C Run-time libraries missing
body: <p>I've been losing sleep over this for a few days now:</p>
  
  <p>I'm using SFML to create an application and everything was well until I created a new project a few days ago. After that whenever I tried to compile a solution that uses SFML libraries I would get linker errors and missing DLL files. </p>
  
  <p>I looked around and found a program called <a href="http://www.dependencywalker.com/" rel="nofollow">dependency walker</a> which looks at which DLL files a program depends on. Apparently my program executable was missing some DLL files that are meant to be inside the windows directory.</p>
  
  <p>I freaked out just a little, before finding out they all had the prefix "CRT" and the suffix of either nothing or "D" which meant that they were Visual C run-time library DLL's.</p>
  
  <p>Even though I'm not missing vital DLL's from my PC, I still need to fix this issue. No there was not major hardware/software changes to my PC prior to the problem (I don't have an antivirus and just trust my guts, I haven't had an issue for 5 years now) and yes I'm sure I'm setting up the SFML directories properly following a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTe7IVncH5E" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried reinstalling and repairing VS and the redistributable VC's for my version of VS (which is 2012 express for win desktop), tried clean booting, the windows self file check (sfc /scannow) and also tried manually placing DLL's into my directory that the dependency walker said I was missing.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone else encountered this before? How did you solve it?</p>
  
  <p>*Interesting note: I have access to an admin account on my school network and installed VS on a computer there to see if the problem would re-occur. Since the windows directories on those machines are never modified VS executed fine. Could it be that I need to get a clean installation of windows? </p>