Not able to launch WAMP - Aestan Tray Menu has stopped working

Question

I just downloaded and installed WAMP, when I open it I get a warning box that

Aestan Tray Menu has stopped working -\"A problem has caused program

Answer 1

Mathieu has indeed provided the correct answer.

At least under Windows XP you need to intall:

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package

in order to make it work. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=29

Answer 2

I just got it properly installed! I might be the only one who made this mistake, but I followed the advice above and it still didn't work-then I saw that I was downloading the wrong wampserver version - below the download button on the sourceforge download is a list of files-I pressed the link of the 2.2E file, instead of just clicking the download button on the top of the page

Ellen

Answer 3

I have tried the all answers here. But nothing works for me. Problem with me is UAC permission. WAMP needs UAC permission to load some menu items.

You need to turn off UAC permission.

More info here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54514409/6914403

Answer 4

Make sure you download and install the right version of WAMP (32 bit or 64 bit). If you choose the wrong one, apache will die on startup, causing the Aestan tray menu to die.

Answer 5

Try to disable temporally your Antivirus.

(After a day of trouble I've disabled all Kaspersky activity and everything started to work, also re-enabling Kaspersky....)

Answer 6

Had the same problem. I had to install this to make it work properly :

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=29

HTH

Mathieu.