pyinstaller onefile: temporary folder _MEI is created, but can't be accessed in windows XP

[Giuseppe Modugno]

I created a single executable for some of my python applications. They work well on Windows 10.

Today I tried to run the executable created by pyinstaller under Windows XP and it didn't work. The error I received is:

VCRUNTIME140.DLL could not be extracted!

fopen: Permission denied

The temporary _MEI folder is created during initialization, but it can't be used. For example, if I try to enter _MEI folder created by pyinstaller through Explorer I received Access Denied error. And I either can't delete the foder with DEL command (I don't know how to delete those folders created by pyinstaller).

I tried to change TMP environment variable and it works: pyinstaller creates the _MEI folder in another directory, but the problem is the same.