UDE® shows a warning about runtime components and/or crashes while opening context menus.

If UDE® shows a warning after start:

  UDEFrameworkManager
    Runtime components are older than required by UDE !
    This might result in instable function of UDE.

Or if UDE® crashes while opening context menus, then this is probably caused by a wrong/old version of Microsoft visual C++ runtime.

We recommend to fix the issue by installing the latest runtime package from Microsoft:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads
There a several versions available, please download and install
vc_redist.x86.exe for UDE up to version 5.2
vc_redist.x64.exe for UDE version 2021 and later

Background:

Usually the UDE setup detects the installed runtime version and updates it if required.
But there might be some other 3rd party software installed, which also uses a runtime, but does not properly update the windows registry. So the UDE setup cannot recognize that other runtime. The package from Microsoft will update the runtime to latest version.