Thanks for your bug report.
This appears to be quite a
common Windows error.
I have not been able to reproduce it yet and the best explanation I have found on
stackexchange is somewhat convoluted.
The problem seems to be due to multiple, conflicting versions of the C runtime msvcr*.dll files installed in the wrong folders by different applications and added to the Windows PATH environment variable.
That said, I cannot see why v7.55 would not show the same issue. The only major change in this version was updating to OpenSSL to v1.1.1b, which required some changes to make it work under XP. I am going to create a beta with OpenSSL that compiles without support for Windows XP and will upload it later today to see if that resolves your issue.
