This is the link where you download the MSVC for Python 2.7 installer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 https://www.microsoft.com/

This is the link where you download the MSVC for Python 2.7 installer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=442... Once it loads, close the survey popup thay may or may not appear and hit the download button. No need to login or put your email or anything. I thought you were going to say that even with it installed, there are rare ocassions where the system doesn't acknowledge the existance of MSVC, for example Cython. I thought the post might give a solution to that particular issue, but so far it seems nothing has changed in that aspect.