If you see this error message when trying to run Song Surgeon 5, it means that you have
an older machine that needs some updates before it can run Song Surgeon correctly.

Please go to this link:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows

On this page you will see these two downloads for each Operating System. Find your OS.  If
you have a 32 bit machine only download and install the x86 file. If you have a 64 bit machine
download and install both.

Once you have completed this update, click the Song Surgeon icon and again try to run the program.