Here, because Im a nice (angry) guy, heres what worked for me. For whatever reason, latest windows 11 might be missing the visual c++ runtime version they built this new 2023 taxes version with (usually software auto installs this, for instance, various games do it at install time, turbo tax doesnt, or didnt for me, w/e), so get the updated version from Microsoft here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio...
Its (likely) youre on windows 11 x64 so, just down the page youll be looking for this sections download link
Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Version
| X64 | https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe | Permalink for latest supported x64 version. The X64 Redistributable package contains both ARM64 and X64 binaries. This package makes it easy to install required Visual C++ ARM64 binaries when the X64 Redistributable is installed on an ARM64 device. |
install restart, the white window still stalled for a few seconds but then the key entry box shows, worked for me.
