I don't know what's happening on your machine...
We (and many others) don't have this kind of issues...
Which windows version are you using?
By the way, the error message you show at the beginning of this thread make us think some things are kind of corrupted on your machine...
Seems very close to this:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... oappcompatThis c++ runtime is normally not required to run Cross but you can try reinstalling it as advised in the Microsoft forum... and let us know.