MS Access and broken reference -- missing utility.mda message - ms-access

I'm working with MS Access 2007 and I'm trying to migrate it to a Windows 10 computer. Up until now I have been working on Windows XP.
I use visual basic string functions (right left instr...) and lots of system calls (date, CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"), Application.FileSearch, FoundFileObj...) and when opening my database on a Windows 10 computer, it recognises neither string function names nor System calls.
When trying to close the database I get messages that utility.mda is missing.
So I figure that some of these functions are in utility.mda which is included in references in my visual basic editor on my XP Computer.
So I thought OK I download utility.mda on the Windows10 computer from the MS Access installation cd but the windows10 computer says utility.mda is protected and I can't download it.
Can anyone help? Any ideas how to fix this problem?
Thank you!

It's probably a reference problem.
Check this Microsoft guide.
Another guide: Link

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Update:
The problem happens with more than one Access database. I don't think it has anything to do with the actual Access database I'm working on because, as I added in my P.S. above, I see the same message when I try to manage my Access Add-ins through the Options panels (a feature that's not linked to any particular database). Does that make sense?
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA6
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The next time I ran Access 2007 it automatically went into its setup routine (a couple of minutes) and when it was done everything was working correctly.
Note: Uninstalling and re-installing Access 2007 did not solve the problem. I had to remove the bad directory as noted in bold above.

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