I wrote a little "hello world" program to test my computer, but when i sompile the program there's an error: ------ Build started: Project: hi, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Build started 15/10/2012 22:36:48. InitializeBuildStatus: Touching "Debug\hi.unsuccessfulbuild". Link: hi.vcxproj - D:\MSVS\hi\Debug\hi.exe Manifest: Debug\hi.exe.intermediate.manifest : general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse the manifest. {q~ 0H Build FAILED. Time Elapsed 00:00:02.34 ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== the creepiest thing i think would be that line of "OH"... i wonder if there's any way to solve this...please help. Many thanks. edit: i tried changing the character set into "multi-byte" and turning "embed manifest"(from "manifest tools") off, but it still cant solve the error