I downloaded the Win64 version, and tried to follow the instructions for installing it. I unzipped it into a directory in Program Files, called Fritzing. But when I double-clicked fritzing.exe, I got the message
The program can’t start because
api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer
Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
Note that if the file is missing, the file is missing, and “re-installing” the suite of files is not going to magically produce this file if it is not in the original file distribution. I do not recognize this file as an expected Microsoft DLL, although parts of the name suggest it might be the Windows C Runtime.
Wasn’t successful. The install of this package on Win7 hung, and when I quit out of it, the error log showed that certain modules had failed to install.
It would have been nice if the download actually contained everything necessary to create a running installation.
Fritzing has proven to not be terribly useful to me, because I can’t get it to run.
joe
Thanks Old_Grey for the tip. 2999226 appears to have worked for me.
However, supuflounder, like you, I have recently had the same problems loading Windows Updates. I think Microsoft might be making some changes in the Windows Update procedure.
After trying a number of suggested fixes I found online, this one finally worked for me. Once I used this procedure for fixing Windows Updates, I was able to manually install the 2999226 update successfully. That allowed Fritzing to install properly.