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I made a C++ program on visual studio and transferred the file.exe to a USB drive and then onto my windows 10 laptop. I am currently running windows 11 on my main. When trying to boot the program on windows 10 I was presented with an error for multiple DLL file types. I installed the DLL files and now after trying to run the program I am prompted with the error "The application was unable to start correctly (0x000007b). Click OK to close the application." I have tried numerous things such as restarting and checking the disk. I am not very tech savvy so if someone could explain in simple terms that would be great and I appreciate your patience. ALSO, if someone could help, I would greatly appreciate it because I really want to show off my program to some colleagues. If all else fails, I guess I'll just download Visual studio on my windows 10 laptop.
In addition to what Viorel-1 said, you can create a setup for your program. That takes time to learn how to do but it is the way that most C++ programs are installed. I assume that Viorel-1 did not mention that since it does take time to learn and therefore is too complicated to fully explain here.
Try distributing the Release version of your program (instead of Debug). There is a dropdown list in toolbars where you should select "Release", and use the .exe file from "Release" subfolder.
In addition, in Project Properties for Release configuration, C/C++, Code Generation, Runtime Library, try selecting "Multi-threaded (/MT)" instead of "Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)".
If you are building the "x64" configuration, then make sure that the target Operating System is 64-bit.
If this does not help, then probably you should install (on target machine) the Redistributable files: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/redistributing-visual-cpp-files. Do not copy system DLL files manually. Also show details about the type of your program.