Manually install Photosynth components (Windows XP only)
Normally Photosynth automatically installs all its required components. If you are on this page, one of those automatic installations has probably failed. Here you can install them manually, which should fix the problem. Please try the following steps:

  1. Download the Visual C++ Runtime installer and run it.
  2. Download the
  3. Then try to launch Photosynth again (it may still take up to 5 minutes as we download the correct files).

If it still doesn’t work, please send us an e-mail telling us about your system so that we can learn more about what went wrong.