Win 1709 Killed my Sonar

Win 1709 has killed my Sonar too - i get "mfc140u.dll missing, VCRUNTIME140.dll missing , CONCRT140.dll missing". I don't have a steinberg driver. I "updated" Windows to 1709 on 28th December, then tried to load Sonar only today after my holiday.
I tried to uninstall the update, but discovered it had deleted the old files (hah- Microsoft didn't tell me that when I "upgraded") - AND it doesn't recognize the Restore files that I used to make religiously so I can't do a hard drive image restore. Why do these people come up with these ideas? I can either re-install Sonar or use the system restore disc from the previous version of Win 10 - what would be the better option?
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(I got the following reply from CakeAlexSHere)  .........

Your issue is completely different I would create a brand new thread as you risk hijacking the OP's thread.
Anyway these are missing Visual C runtime libraries, generally the first thing to do here is run Windows Update several times. Otherwise a Sonar reinstall might handle it, worst case scenario is to download the libraries from MS and install.
 
 
SO I Started a new post.   I tried running Windows update and it kept telling me I had the latest version installed.   So I tried running a new install of Sonar -   I get error message "unable to register DLL/OCX:RegSvr32 failed with exit code 0x3"..... help!!! 

Go back to Windows 7. Stop this nonsense.

I was referring to the forced updates. Either go back to Windows 7 with a stable working version of the Sonar of your choice, and do security-only updates. Or just keep it offline. Or, stay with Windows 10, but disable automatic updating. Or, again, just keep it offline. Your operating system should not break your software. If it does, do something about it. Take control of your computer.

Try updating your Visual c++ runtimes with this.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/visual_c_aio_installeruninstaller.html

michael diemer
I was referring to the forced updates. Either go back to Windows 7 with a stable working version of the Sonar of your choice, and do security-only updates. Or just keep it offline. Or, stay with Windows 10, but disable automatic updating. Or, again, just keep it offline. Your operating system should not break your software. If it does, do something about it. Take control of your computer.

This is absolutely nothing to do with the OP's missing C++ libraries issue. Actually in this instance the OP needs to update, the problem is the opposite, his software is too old and not the operating system.

Cactus Music
YA I'm not sure why Promidi is always posting these links to crap installers. 
And myself I find those libraries will automatically update when needed by software. 
Did he OP mention which version of Sonar he is using? 
I cannot follow this one at all.. 

Windows 1709 is a sub version number of Windows 10.

Yeah I've been on 1703 for a while as I'm on Windows update for business path (Windows Pro), I'll let others do the "beta" testing and Microsoft will deploy later versions to me when they are ready :).

Ya I'm aware of what 1709 is and not in a good way :) 
Nothing but problems. I had zero issues all last year up until this update, Now I have crashes. 
So far my W 8.1 DAW has not crashed. But now I'm having my Bios keeps telling me it has re set? I never changed it?? I think I failed building this one. Time for a better MoBo. 
Say what you will my 2 W 7 laptops run perfectly. 
 
Question, Could we perpetually keep rolling back to 1703 forever??

^ That's the 32 bit version
vc_redist.x64.exe is the 64 bit version.

Anyway glad it is working.

CakeAlexSHere

michael diemer
Go back to Windows 7. Stop this nonsense.

Hahaha!
Window 7 suffers far more from C++ libraries out of date because people don't bother fully keeping it fully up to date. This issue is far rarer under Windows 10. If I had a tenner every time I've seen this under Windows 7.

Regardless this is simply an issue with the programming libraries being out of date. One day windows 7 users will run out of support for these sort of issues.

I'm running on Win7 pro and only allowed 1 update after installing the OS and updates are permanently off.
SPLAT is perfect and has been from day 1.
Macrium Reflect images are made anytime I change something and I always have the 4 previous images.
That's called bullet proof.

I have Win 10 Pro 1709 with ALL updates and NO problems.  Sonar (and Studio One 3) run perfectly.  I also have the advanced Windows Insider version and NO problems on it either. 
 
I have no "tweaks" to Win 10.  I do have power plan set for Performance but I don't consider that a "tweak".
 
 

I wasn't clear in my last thread, but I do believe my Sonar crashes are not actually Sonar's fault. It's W10 messing with my system and makes it unstable again. I did build the box myself so take full blame for this. I'm finding out that my Mobo , which is a Gigabyte GA 97x Soc is an overclocking gaming MoBo and was probably a bad choice for a DAW. The bios is unstable and I'm reluctant to flash it. Anyhow. It really hates W10 and seems better on W 8.1. 
I still get crashes on my W10 HP store bought box but it's always on line so I think that's another issue. 

Cactus Music
I wasn't clear in my last thread, but I do believe my Sonar crashes are not actually Sonar's fault. It's W10 messing with my system and makes it unstable again. I did build the box myself so take full blame for this. I'm finding out that my Mobo , which is a Gigabyte GA 97x Soc is an overclocking gaming MoBo and was probably a bad choice for a DAW. The bios is unstable and I'm reluctant to flash it. Anyhow. It really hates W10 and seems better on W 8.1. 
I still get crashes on my W10 HP store bought box but it's always on line so I think that's another issue. 

Win10 stable as a rock for me Looks like you may already have an idea what it is. I assume you've updated drivers and firmware everywhere, visited Nvidia or AMD for drivers, been to Intel driver update site? Anyway not sure overclocking is a great idea for DAW PC's unless you need to play the latest version of Doom on it :)

Can't you flash the BIOS on these motherboards with any version you like?