

I’m running Windows 8 64-bit and Visual Studio 2012 and RackAFX won’t start!
You need to download and install the 2008 C++ (X86) redistributable from Microsoft. You can get it on the downloads page here


There is a further issue with VS 2012 that complains "one or more components are not installed" and VS is unable to start and persists even after a repair or reinstall.
Fortunately, the fix is simple
Navigate with regedit to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
And delete the following key:
C:\\ProgramFiles(x86)\\MicrosoftVisualStudio11.0\\Common7\\IDE\\WDExpress
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