A few months ago I had Visual Studio IDE then uninstalled it and(stupidly) uninstalled all the Visual C++ Redistributables along with it. I managed to install all the versions from 2005 up to 2013, but I can't seem to get the 2015 version running. I get stuck on "processing:   windows81_x64" and "processing:   windows81_x86"  screens.
I'm trying to use python in command prompt "C:>python" and I get this error "The program cant start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer". I'm also getting similar error messages with other software, python is just an example.
I've tried manually deleting and reinstalling the packages , which obviously hasn't worked. I've also tried using the "major geeks" installer (I know its a 'use at my own risk' software) but it only installed up to 2010 files. 
On a side note, Windows update isn't working for me either, not sure if that has anything to do with the issue or not
Any help appreciated
I really don't know what the issue was, but I reinstalled windows 10 and everything now works fine.
Visual C++ Redistributable 2015 Deleted and can't reinstall