put the 64Bit dll into system32 and the 32Bit one into syswow64 folder.

That could almost be a punchline to a joke.

SHEESH! (Magic Man holding the hand... :thumbsup:)

That, sir, is the answer. 7-Zip will open the INSTALL.WIM so just "dump" them from the same folder name inside to the HDD as instructed.

im the only user of the computer and it says system32 needs permission so i try to give permission when logged in as 'admin'

and it says 'access is denied' when i try to give permission.....

now what? it won't let me replace the .dll without permission

Probably just need to take ownership.

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/take-ownershipreg?replies=3

is better-

http://www.mercenie.com/windows-seven/take-ownership-permission-of-files-folder-in-windows-7-and-xp-to-access-those-completely/

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/189646-green-file.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/17137-read-only-folder-please-help.html

after the dll was replaced with the extracted one, the scan still says the same thing, that it's missing and corrupted..

now what?

How old is the hard drive, can you run a disk diagnostic ?

Did you reboot after replacing the file?

Is Office at least running now? The best repair is still to do the inplace upgrade.

yes did reboots

"old is the hard drive" -- same with the laptop, nothing wrong with it

it says the disk diagnostic can only be scheduled, and i did that once before. i think either it just never ran or it couldn't fix any problems if any

office has always been fine

it's ok, forget it, i give up

i give up

i cancelled the disk check at stage 4 out of 5 because it was taking too long, and likely did the same once before

0 bad files though

don't run it with the /R flag. Only chkdsk C: /f