Where did my computer find all the DLLs named in rasman.dll, in the last two weeks?

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Can anyone tell me where my computer could have found all these DLLs in the last two weeks?

api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1, api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll, api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-2-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-heap-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-kernel32-legacy-l1-1-1.dll, api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-2-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-2-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-2.dll, api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-psapi-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-string-l2-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-string-obsolete-l1-1-0, api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll, api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-1.dll, api-ms-win-security-base-l1-2-0.dll, api-ms-win-security-sddl-l1-1-0, api-ms-win-service-management-l1-1-0, api-ms-win-service-winsvc-l1-2-0

My wife and I have identical computers that we bought at the same time, in the same store. Now suddenly our VPN app on her computer is unable to create new miniports, and the event manager says that RasMan failed to start because it is unable to load one or more communication DLLs. Searching through rasman.dll with WordPad, I found those DLL names above. I found all of those dlls in my System32 folder, but none of them in hers. The only api-* dlls in her System32 folder are all api-ms-win-crt-* dlls. My System32 folder has all those, plus dozens of other api-* dlls besides those, including all the ones named in rasman.dll.

Two weeks ago I refreshed the system on my computer, updated it with Windows Update, and re-installed some Desktop apps.

Can anyone tell me where my computer could possibly have found all those dlls in the last two weeks?

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