dhcp client service won't start

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Published on 2012-11-13T10:24:20Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 11:05 UTC
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I have a Laptop with 2 network interfaces and neither will get an IP address through dhcp. I found out that the dhcp client service didn't start. Upon manually starting it gives the error 2: File not found.

I have checked that the files were there (both svchost and dhcpcore .dll), the local service account has read access to the system32 folder, the path in the registry is also correct and I can access the file. I have tried to netsh winsock reset and ip reset all. I have even added the local service account to the administrators group. sfc /scannow also came up clean.
I have no idea what else I can try. Any suggestions are welcome.

(side note it's a windows 7 32 bit, atheros wlan, deinstalled avira before any of the other troubleshooting)

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