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HexChat, being a C application, depends on Microsoft's Visual C++ Runtime. Normally the HexChat installer will
-install this runtime for you and function as expected. However if you use the portable mode of the installer
+install this runtime for you and function as expected. However, if you use the portable mode of the installer
it cannot install system libraries (this allows running as an unprivileged user).
You can simply install it from Microsoft directly to solve this error: