Installing Samsung Kies 3 on Windows 10 – error message “Side by side configuration is incorrect”

When trying to install Samsung Kies 3 on a Windows 10 machine, the error message “Side by side configuration is incorrect” was displayed.

The reason to this error is that the Visual C++ 2008 runtime is not installed.

To solve the problem you need to download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.
Download it from these links (directly from Microsoft), install them and then retry the Kies installation:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)