My desktop application won't run on a Windows 8 machine - windows-8

I'm using Visual Studio 2013 Express on Windows 7 to build a desktop application using .NET services with DirectX 11. I've started testing on 2 different Windows 8 machines. One also has VS2013E on it, and uses Windows 8 Pro. The other does not have Visual Studio, and uses Windows 8.1. On the first machine, all I had to do was move my executable onto the machine and it worked fine. On the second, I see no evidence that it attempts to run. In fact, I added a MessageBox.Show(...) as the very first line in my code to see if my code was breaking anywhere, but still, nothing happens. Any ideas on what I'm missing?

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Here are some possible solutions:
Where does Visual Studio stores the default browser to use in debug?
Visual Studio opens the default browser instead of Internet Explorer
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/2131/set-default-browser-in-visual-studio.aspx
Perhaps this as well:
http://developer.telerik.com/featured/5-ways-to-build-mobile-apps-with-visual-studio/
http://blog.credera.com/technology-insights/microsoft-solutions/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-debugging-in-visual-studio-2012/

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Yes, Windows8 is required.
However, VM can be used. For example, I'm running Win8RP/64 and VS2012RC in Oracle VirtualBox on Win7/64.
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