Missing MSVCP110.dll file / Photoshop Elements / Nik Software

Kudos to Mr. Julius! His contribution saved the day for me with a load of photos to edit. His entry should be made a sticky, I'm sure there will be a lot of people looking for help on this issue.

Yes, thank goodness for this forum and for Mr.Julius's helpful input otherwise I'd be fuming by now. This was Google's response to my email: "Thank you for contacting Nik by Google. We have received your question and due to new software releases our response time is currently 1-2 business days..." Miraculously they found a smidgen of time to follow up later and instructed me to "download and reinstall the Nik Collection to your computer..." The last time I followed those instructions for a different problem it solved nothing. The second part of my question, "can I disable auto updates?" was ignored.

Hours of time wasted . . . Google should announce a new plug-in is in its way via a software update rather than just spring it on us!

If you have your download link from last March when the Nik Collection was made available use that link which will download the updated software and the new analog filter.

Depending on your firewall program, it may be possible to stop NIK Software from phoning home and auto updating in the future. Within the firewall program (example: McAfee) check your list of installed programs and their permissions, then block NIK Software from accessing the internet.

That way you can read about the update, wait for problems to arise, wait for the fix on those problems, then "allow" NIK Software to phone home for the stable update. I have done this with a few programs.

MrJulius

MrJulius said:

Depending on your firewall program, it may be possible to stop NIK Software from phoning home and auto updating in the future. Within the firewall program (example: McAfee) check your list of installed programs and their permissions, then block NIK Software from accessing the internet.

That way you can read about the update, wait for problems to arise, wait for the fix on those problems, then "allow" NIK Software to phone home for the stable update. I have done this with a few programs.

MrJulius

That sounds like a great idea - thank you!

misfitmorgan said:

Just adding in here if you dont know the file for Win 32bit machines is x64 and the file for Win 64bit is x86...

It's the other way around: Win 32 is x86 and Win 64 is x64

That is what Dyslexia and tiredness do to you lmao. Thanks.

I am another one and enjoyed reading all the comments. I do have MSVCP110.dll and did not get that error message. However, when I open Color Efex Pro or Silver Efex Pro, I find my GPU has been disabled since it is not compatible! It is listed as one that is on the NIK website. Neither plugin works like it did before they added Analog Efex Pro. I have updated my driver as requested and sent them all the system information they requested. It has been over 2 weeks and I have gotten no solution from them yet--in fact no reply to my latest emails. I called and was told the supervisor was busy!

I have updated Windows and do not see the Visual C++ for Visual Studio 2012 listed. I have uninstalled and reinstalled from old links, but the newest version is downloaded. I tried installing as a trial and that did not work either. I had a similar problem getting NIK to work on my laptop and disabled the GPU, but I don't use that for processing so haven't worried about it. The desktop is another story. I depend on it for photo processing, especially SEP 2 for monochrome. There is no substitute. Neither program works in PS Elements of Lightroom. I haven''t gotten to use LR and always have used the NIK programs with Elements with no problems. They worked fairly fast and now are sluggish at best and are useless since the Google update.

Is the program dependent on the Visual C++ to run properly? If so why doesn't it download with NIK?

Thanks for this forum. It looks very useful.