Program cant start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer
I just downloaded the Testcomplete trial to determine if this product can be used to automate some of our GUI testing on windows desktop applications comprised of WPFs and Winforms. When I tried to make a simple test of opening the application, navigating to a certain page, and checking a box, I get thrown this error - "Program cant start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer". The program has no problem opening on my computer without using Testcomplete so I'm not sure what the issue or fix is.
So a few things, it sounds like this problem is more specifically related to your Windows or application configuration and not Test Complete itself:
I'm not 100% sure why it would run just fine manually though. Perhaps it's not actually clicking the correct executable? Can you post any log screenshots you have and screen shots of the recorded test?
I would also highly recommend going over the test complete documentation for tested apps as opposed to manually navigating and clicking on an executable:
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/tested-apps/index.html
This would be a much better way of opening your application.