side-by-side (Sxs) and windows 2008 r2

xampp 1.7.7
C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is in correct. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

googled some time and finally solved it by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package, the one of x86 not amd64/x64
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5582

there's a lot of pages inside http://www.apachefriends.org xampp forum talking about this

the software below also have this problem, too, 32-bit httpd.exe is packed with
UniServer
www.uniformserver.com

wampserver, requires installation
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

zwamp, requires reboot prior to first launch
http://zwamp.sourceforge.net/

also
libreoffice >=3.5.1, launch any only fatal error
32-bit python >=3 exe packed by cx_freeze
and many more