Windows 8.1 Error After Installing Kodi 17.1

I have been a Kodi user for some time now. I have been running Kodi 16 Jarvis.

I have tried the previous installation of Krypton (Kodi 17.0) as well as the newest version (Kodi 17.1) and i receive the same error message:

kodi.exe – System Error
The program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.

Which i have several times and still gives the same error message. Kodi Jarvis runs smooth a silk without any problems, but I received a message on it the other day saying some programs would start not working correctly soon. I have tried this installation ever since a stable build was released for Krypton and still the same thing. I have updated Windows as much as I possibly can with everything i can possibly update. Thanks for any help because i have searched for this error and do not seem to see any other threads with this problem.

I am running Windows 8.1
64-bit Operating System x64