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The server will not start with this bat file? I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 on my VDS. If I add a pause I get this error message-
"There is no program associated to perform the requested action. Please install a program or associate one in control panel" ?
I'm not sure what you mean in terms of how you're running it, but a "side by side" error may mean that you need to reinstall the appropriate MSVC libraries.
We have all of them installed on our internal machines and I'm not sure which version you'd need. I'd recommend starting with 2005 and just working your way up. RS2 is 64-bit software, so you'll want the x64 versions.
It appears that the MSVC 2008 redist libraries are the ones actually needed. We saw this problem today on a managed machine and reinstalling those fixed it.