Program compiled with MSVC 9 won't start on a vanilla SP3 XP

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Published on 2010-03-15T16:42:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 16:49 UTC
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I installed XP on a virtual machine, updated it to SP3 and then tested a small program compiled with Visual C++ 2008 on my real computer - however it didn't start but outputted only an error saying that a problem had been detected and that a reinstall of the application (mine is 10KB in size and doesn't even have an installation) could fix the problem.

What is required to run programs compiled with MSVC 9?
Can I just include some dlls for it to work everywhere?

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