So I have a Lenovo ideapad Laptop running Windows 10 Family (pre-installed, the laptop being brand new I decided not to tinker with the OS and such) with 4Gb of RAM and an Intel Core i5-7200 CPU @ 2.5GHz.

Shadow Warrior Classic Redux simply won't start.
When I run the game, the map pack selection screen shows up. I can then click on an option.

Then the game will load, the screen "flash" blank, trying to switch to the default resolution the game uses at the first startup, then flashes back to the desktop and the process is nowhere to be found in taskmgr.
Running the game as Administrator or changing the compatibility mode to Windows 7 doesn't change anything.

Also, I have installed the game on the only hard drive on the laptop (main drive), not on the recovery partition, nor have I created a separate partition for the games.
The path is simple : C:\GOG Games\Shadow Warrior Classic Redux.
I tried installing to a shorter path (you never know), but it didn't change anything.

Has anyone encountered the same problem?
Could it be a problem with the VC++ Redist?

Thank you very much for your reply and your suggestions, but in the end it was something much stupider than that, something I realised when I tried running Blood II and Unreal Gold on the same computer :

I had not turned off automatic DEP. Turning it off for anything but standard Windows processes fixed it.

Thank you anyway, if the problem reoccurs I'll keep your tips handy.