Seculauncher 2000 error.

Hello there, I am having the seculauncher 2000 error on startup, I know that this is common and usually related to C++ or .NET framework. I know that I have .NET framework, but am unsure of C++, and when I try to download C++ the installer starts for a few seconds saying "Gathering information" then it automatically closes by itself.

The weird part is that several days ago my game was working perfectly, and I re-installed it to get off all the mods since I wanted to play the vanilla game but after that this began happening.

Also if it helps at all, if I try to launch the gtaivlauncher.exe as an administrator I get a windows UAC alert that the program may be dangerous and it won't let me run it at all, however I feel that this is a false positive because as stated this is on a clean install.

My game is bought through steam, any help is greatly appreciated. Also, I apologize for making a new post for a common problem but after looking through the other posts nothing mentioned could solve my problem. Again thank you for your time.

Nevermind got it working finally, however the fix was to not run GTAIV as an administrator, I feel like this may make the game slightly less unstable as it already is. 

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by mr911matt
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