WoW api-ms-win-core-com error

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Hi, Can anyone help me? I couldn’t download the prepatch due to my disk being full. So I tried clearing space (to no avail), by deleting Classic WoW, Wrath and the beta folder. I later restored them from the recycling bin. Tried launching WoW, but it gave me 'The program can’t start because api-ms-win-core-come-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." I then unistalled WoW, and moved it to a larger second internal hard drive. It has fully downloaded and says ready to play, but I’m still getting the same error. What do I do? Do a complete uninstall of WoW and BattleNet and start again? Thanks

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I have the same problem, but I didn’t delete/restore anything. Shadowlands worked fine, updated and ran that game once 10.0 was live and I get the error.

I am on Windows 7, an older rig. Judging by the below post I’m wondering if my hardware is no longer supported. Are you on a newer machine?

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/cant-start-wow-api-ms-win-core-com-l1-1-0dll/1308792

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And here is another recent post relating to this, again Windows 7:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/win-7-users-can-you-log-in/1379863

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Thank you for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it. Yes, I am running Windows 7 on a 2014 machine.

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i guess my days of playing WoW has ended 15yrs +…sad but yup

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The file you need is not a part of Windows 7.

Only fix for now would be update to a current OS.

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So I updated my machine to Windows 10 and it works now :-/

Googling I found that there is still a way to upgrade to windows 10 for free. So long as your hardware supports it…

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