When opening programs including PC games on your Windows device, you may encounter the error message The program can’t start because api-ms-win-core-timezone-i1-1-0 ...

The error message in the dialog box reads the following : The program can’t start because api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll is missing from your computer ...

On win7, The TF2CDownloader never started up at all and just gave a api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing error. And adding in a api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll from any website made this error: ...

I tried to fix it by manually downloading the api-ms-win-core-psm-appnotify-l1-1-0.dll file and putting it in the same directory as the exe and even in the c_drive/windows/system32 folder but nothing ...