MCL-176520xc000007b
Let me preface this with the fact that I've been playing minecraft normally for months now without issue, and without really changing anything within my folders in the past week or so. It started out by telling me VCRUNTIME140.dll and msvcp140.dll were missing, so I checked out the locations it wanted them and placed them there. And then the launcher spits this out at me, okay, well, the previous two errors said reinstalling the game would help, so I went and did that. This error still appeared after doing so, and has not even installed the .minecraft folder. Please help.
Environment
Windows 10, JRE1.8.0_281 and JDK-11.0.2 (OpenJDK if that matters)
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0xc000007b
Let me preface this with the fact that I've been playing minecraft normally for months now without issue, and without really changing anything within my folders in the past week or so. It started out by telling me VCRUNTIME140.dll and msvcp140.dll were missing, so I checked out the locations it wanted them and placed them there. And then the launcher spits this out at me, okay, well, the previous two errors said reinstalling the game would help, so I went and did that. This error still appeared after doing so, and has not even installed the .minecraft folder. Please help.
Environment
Windows 10, JRE1.8.0_281 and JDK-11.0.2 (OpenJDK if that matters)
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Where do you live? Did this issue only crop up in the last 10 hours or so? The missing dll issue is being tracked at
MCL-17664.Please try uninstalling and reinstalling the launcher: https://launcher.mojang.com/download/MinecraftInstaller.msi
From North America, have Windows 10, and about 24 hours ago this happened to me as well. Just like OP, everything has been running smoothly for months until getting an auto-update when reopening Java Minecraft Launcher. Didn't get any messages about vcruntime140.dll or msvcp140.dll being missing, instead just straight up shows me the 0xc000007b error. I've tried repairing and removing the launcher with the MinecraftInstaller.msi, manually deleting it myself and reinstalling, restarting my computer—and most permutations of the above, but nothing works.
EDIT: Just downloaded Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 as per other issue solutions suggest. Tried vc_redist.x64.exe first—didn't work, got 0x80070666 error. Tried vc_redist.x86.exe and it worked! Clicked minecraft launcher, it resumed updating, then successfully opened. Still not sure if the problem was in my computer or in the launcher, but this immediate solution works.
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