Whitelist background programs if you get errors about API initialization
The following two screenshots show the important files that need to run on your Windows machine.
If you get a startup error message and you are running a Virus Scanner or some other utility - you may need to Whitelist these programs. The process of "whitelisting" simply means telling the scanner that these programs are known and OK, so leave them alone.
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