I had about a dozen different versions, so I cleared them all out the. Just installed the latest x86 & x64 versions of the 2015-2019 versions.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads
In the end it wasn’t the cause of my crashes at the time, but it tided up my install base quite a bit, and didn’t harm anything either.