Creative Cloud and Lightroom Classic in Windows 11 / Parallels virtual machine / Apple Silicon Mac
Plugin developers: If you rely on running Lightroom Classic in Windows 11 on a Parallels virtual machine on Mac, you could run into the following error installing the Creative Cloud desktop app on an Apple Silicon (M1, M2) computer:
"Creative Cloud.exe - Application Error. The application was unable to start correctly (Oxc000007b). Click OK to close the application."
Some googling revealed the solution: Install the x86 and x64 versions of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
The Windows 11 (ARM) installation created by Parallels didn't include them, but they seem to be needed by some components of the Creative Cloud installation that are still compiled for Intel.
Much thanks to Adobe employee @Niesha Arya:
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