I just installed MC on my dad's laptop so I could play bc I could not use my pc at the time, and I tried to use the beta version of the launcher, but when I restarted it to get the beta version, I just got an error. I uninstalled and reinstalled the launcher with the installer to try to see if that would get me out of the beta(because the launcher worked without the beta), but it still gave me an error. It gives 2 errors:
The first one says: The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.
The second one says: The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.
Try reinstalling the launcher: https://launcher.mojang.com/download/MinecraftInstaller.msi