How to be able to triage your PC at a moment’s notice

In a world with the increasing importance of computers, one must know how their system ticks. As capacities and appetite for computer users are increasing, more are the chances that some little thing breaks suddenly at any given time. Everyone’s use case is different, and hence it becomes even essential that one can make minor repairs to their system at any given time. One must have the basic know-how to make basic changes, such as changing admin permissions, initialising an msvcp140.dll download, dealing with internet settings, changing router settings, etc.

Now let’s go over some common categories of issues, and derive ways in which one can easily solve a multitude of problems that would be faced in the course of normal computer operation at any given time.

1. Administrative Privileges

A lot of times, launching applications has no effect. Nothing occurs on the screen, and there is no feedback or prompt in regards to what could have possibly caused the error. This may be likely due to a lack of administrative privileges delegated to the application. This is important as to launch an application, the executable may need to make some changes to launch properly, it could need to load some prerequisites, and may be required to tap into some Dynamic Link Libraries to launch the application and function properly. A lack of administrative access restricts its ability to do so. As a result, the application may not launch.

Fortunately, the solution is simple, right-clicking on the application and clicking Run As Administrator will resolve this issue, and enable the application to function properly. If this step is perceived to be too time taking, then an alternative is to access properties and tick the Run as Administrator option there, it is usually located in the Compatibility Options subset of settings in the requisite menu. This will launch the application in such a mode by default, and hence skip out on the right click step whenever the application is to be launched.

2. Installing Dynamic Link Library files

Applications function by tapping into various subsystems to function. For example, a media player like VLC would tap into your video and audio drivers and libraries to execute its task. It would utilise the audio libraries to output audio to one’s headphones or speakers.

As everyone has different uses, Windows does not come with every type of Dynamic Link Library (DLL) file out of the box, hence there may be cases where errors may pop up regarding missing. DLL files. For example, one gets an error regarding a case of something like msvcp140.dll missing.

Now, the solution here is to initiate an msvcp140.dll download from a trusted DLL Site and put the file in your system. Once you put the file in the root windows directory, and the directory where the actual program and its executable are, the issue will be resolved. Do note that the directory of putting the file in may differ. This depends on the fact if one’s Windows is a 32-bit version or a 64 bit one. These are different types of System Architectures. The system32 folder is the ideal location for 32 bit systems, while the Wow6432 node is the one for 64 bit systems.