WAMP error – ‘VCRUNTIME140.dll’ is missing

This is a common WAMP problem. WAMP will show this prompt during installation and if you ignore it there, you will see the same error when you try to launch the WAMP server. The error would be like

The program can’t start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem.

The solution is simple. Simply install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio. You can download the suitable setup from The latest supported Visual C++ downloads page.

Once it’s installed, you need to restart WAMP and it should work without any issue.