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The command-line tools in the PuTTY suite, as of version 0.82, didn't run at all on Windows XP, giving an unhelpfully vague error message of the form
The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
This wasn't intentional on our part: we didn't deliberately withdraw support for the standard builds of PuTTY running on XP (although as I understand it XP is no longer itself in security support by Microsoft). It happened because a build-tools upgrade inserted a default application manifest into those files, which XP was unhappy with the formatting of (for similar reasons to the much older bug xp-wont-run). Now those files have no manifest at all, which is the same way they were in 0.81 and before.