When you start multiple Adobe Creative Suite 4 Suite Products or Point Products, you see the error message, "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail." with a path to the application executable file. Note that the application name will vary.
This error may be followed by a more specific application failure in one of the other applications, such as:
This error can effect any Adobe Suite products, such as Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Encore CS4 or Adobe Extension Manager CS4.
This is a known Windows issue, primarily occurring on Windows Vista. It can occur for several reasons.
In some cases it occurs because the machine has Microsoft Visual C++ installed, and the Visual C++ libraries have become corrupted.
In other cases it indicates that the installation of Suite did not completely finish. In some situations the Suite installation will require a reboot when finished. However, the 'reboot' dialog is not always displayed. In these cases the Suite install log will show:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Restarting your computer is recommended: In order to Finish the installation, please restart the computer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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