sorry if I'm calling it broken. it's just the fact how frustrated i got since it's not working properly. these are the screenshots of the programs I've installed btw
Hmmm, the links to the redists that someone provided seemed to be different than yours, I'll provide them here if you need them just in case:
-https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=6041
-https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26347