A: Microsoft stopped bundling the VC++ 2003 runtime starting with Windows 8. Modern Windows expects applications to either bundle their own private copies of msvcr71.dll (place it in the app's folder) or install the redistributable themselves.
Install the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable (which includes VC++ 2003 runtimes) or the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools . microsoft visual c 2003 redistributable package -x64-