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Background to dll hell

What is a DLL file?

DLL stands for Dynamic Link Library and can be described as a collection of functions that one or more programs uses to perform different tasks. It could for example be to print something to your printer or maybe show something on your screen. The DLL is loaded into memory when it's used, and then unloaded to save memory.

When do you get a DLL hell?

One example of a DLL hell problem can occur when two different programs are using the same shared dll file.
For example Program A gets installed on your computer and puts shared.dll in c:\windows\system32. Then you install another software called Program B that also installs shared.dll in c:\windows\system32, so that the previous installed shared.dll gets overwritten. If you then at a later occasion either uninstall Program A or Program B, that uninstall process removes shared.dll from your computer and the remaining Program A/B get's an error message on launch saying "Couldn't find shared.dll".

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