When the aquasuite is not running with this installed packages something is wrong with your windows installation.
I can confirm what Pocalypse has experienced.
I just built a new PC with Win8.1 and received the same error
"Visual C++ 2010 redistributable package not found"
After ensuring that Visual C++ 2010 was installed (both 64 and 32 bit versions) I tried installing .NET v4 however Win8.1 will not allow you to install the redistributable package as it has already installed a higher version and it prevents you from loading v4 Redist.
Note that my build is quite sparse in that only Win8.1 and drivers etc have been installed - not much other software.
I think Aquasuite suite is looking for some other/extra files it thinks should be part of the visual C++ redist package but are not there which is preventing it from running.