Found a fix for "the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered"

To anyone writing a program in Visual Studio (on a 64 bit computer) and trying to link to a MS Access database, you may encounter this error message. "the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered" It frustrated the hell out of me but I dug around a found a solution on how to fix it.
1. Download and install this 2007 Office patch for the MS Database Engine
     http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=23734
2. If that alone does not fix your issue then change your project build in visual studio to an x86 build by going to build>configuration manager>active solution platform>new>x86
3. If that does not fix your issue, tell me what does when you figure it out. Sorry.