Windows XP DLL File Information

Welcome to DLL information site for Windows XP.
This site was built by scanning all DLL files located in system32 directory of Windows XP with SP3 and creating (with automatic script) a Web page for each DLL with all found infromation.

Each DLL information page includes:

Version information - product name, company, file desctiption, and so on.
DLL popularity - Shows you how many DLLs are statically linked to this file.
List of files that are statically linked to the specified file. Displayed only when the number of files in the list is 10 or less.
Sections information - Shows you the code and data sections in the DLL.
Resources information - Displays a summary of resources stored in the DLL (icons, bitmaps, cursors, dialog-boxes, and so on)
Icons Thumbnail - A Thumbnail with all icons stored in the DLL.
Cursors Thumbnail - A Thumbnail with all cursors stored in the DLL.
Strings information - Displays a list of strings stored in this DLL (Currently the list is limited to 200 strings)
Diaogbox information - Displays a list of dialog-boxes captions in this DLL (Currently the list is limited to 200 dialog-boxes)
Static Linking - Displays the list of DLL files that are statically linked to the DLL. When a DLL is loaded the DLL in this Static Linking list are also loaded with it.
Exports/Imports List - A list of all imported and exported functions.

Looking in the Web page of specific DLL can help to learn what is this DLL and how it's linked with the other DLL files on Windows XP operating system.

In order to browse into the right DLL page, select the first letter of the DLL file, and then you'll get a list of all dll files begins with this letter:

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

You can also locate a DLL according to the following "TOP DLL" statistics:

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of icons

Filename	Description	Number of icons
shell32.dll	Windows Shell Common Dll	238
netshell.dll	Network Connections Shell	157
mmcndmgr.dll	MMC Node Manager DLL	129
moricons.dll	Windows NT Setup Icon Resources Library	114
ieframe.dll	Internet Explorer	105
compstui.dll	Common Property Sheet User Interface DLL	99
xpsp2res.dll	Service Pack 2 Messages	81
wmploc.dll	Windows Media Player	60
comres.dll		38
pifmgr.dll	Windows NT PIF Manager Icon Resources Library	38

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of cursors

Filename	Description	Number of cursors
user32.dll	Windows XP USER API Client DLL	28
msftedit.dll	Rich Text Edit Control, v4.1	19
comctl32.dll	Common Controls Library	18
mshtml.dll	Microsoft (R) HTML Viewer	18
riched20.dll	Rich Text Edit Control, v3.0	17
mfc42u.dll	MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version	12
mfc40.dll	MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version	12
mfc42.dll	MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version	12
mfc40u.dll	MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version	12
ieframe.dll	Internet Explorer	8

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of bitmaps

Filename	Description	Number of bitmaps
wmploc.dll	Windows Media Player	480
ieframe.dll	Internet Explorer	219
cards.dll	Entertainment Pack Cardplaying Helper DLL	74
browseui.dll	Shell Browser UI Library	56
winbrand.dll	Windows Branding Resources	50
shell32.dll	Windows Shell Common Dll	46
comres.dll		34
msgina.dll	Windows NT Logon GINA DLL	31
mprui.dll	Multiple Provider	31
mmcndmgr.dll	MMC Node Manager DLL	29

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of dialog-boxes

Filename	Description	Number of dialog-boxes
xpsp2res.dll	Service Pack 2 Messages	185
shell32.dll	Windows Shell Common Dll	137
rasdlg.dll	Remote Access Common Dialog API	126
comres.dll		118
wmploc.dll	Windows Media Player	84
cryptui.dll	Microsoft Trust UI Provider	75
setupdll.dll	Windows 2000 Setup Dynlink	75
mqutil.dll	Windows NT MQ Utility DLL	65
wsecedit.dll	Security Configuration UI Module	59
netcfgx.dll	Network Configuration Objects	49

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of string resources

Filename	Description	Number of strings
getuname.dll	Unicode name Dll for UCE	10,685
shell32.dll	Windows Shell Common Dll	2,326
wmploc.dll	Windows Media Player	1,861
xpob2res.dll	Service Pack 2 OOB Messages	1,763
xpsp2res.dll	Service Pack 2 Messages	1,509
msjint40.dll	Microsoft Jet Database Engine International DLL	1,424
comres.dll		1,271
odbcjt32.dll	Microsoft ODBC Desktop Driver Pack 3.5	1,215
mqutil.dll	Windows NT MQ Utility DLL	1,214
dinput8.dll	Microsoft DirectInput	968

Top 10 DLL files with largest type library

Filename	Description	Type library size
dx8vb.dll	Microsoft DirectX for Visual Basic	460 KB
dx7vb.dll	Microsoft DirectX for Visual Basic	365 KB
msvidctl.dll	ActiveX control for streaming video	170 KB
wmp.dll	Windows Media Player Core	151 KB
msvbvm60.dll	Visual Basic Virtual Machine	145 KB
msvbvm50.dll	Visual Basic Virtual Machine	120 KB
tapi3.dll	Microsoft TAPI3	113 KB
danim.dll	DirectX Media -- DirectAnimation	113 KB
comsvcs.dll		112 KB
msxml3.dll	MSXML 3.0 SP9	98 KB

Top 25 popular DLL files in System32 directory

In the following table, you can find the DLL files that are commonly used by other DLL files. The 'Number of DLLs' column represents the number of DLL files that use the specified DLL. For example: The first DLL file in this table - kernel32.dll, is loaded by other 934 DLL files in the system32 directory. This statistics is based on static link (import tables) between the DLL files.

Filename	Description	Number of DLLs
kernel32.dll	Windows NT BASE API Client DLL	934
msvcrt.dll	Windows NT CRT DLL	756
advapi32.dll	Advanced Windows 32 Base API	713
user32.dll	Windows XP USER API Client DLL	650
ole32.dll	Microsoft OLE for Windows	448
ntdll.dll	NT Layer DLL	380
oleaut32.dll		320
gdi32.dll	GDI Client DLL	247
rpcrt4.dll	Remote Procedure Call Runtime	217
shlwapi.dll	Shell Light-weight Utility Library	178
shell32.dll	Windows Shell Common Dll	142
netapi32.dll	Net Win32 API DLL	101
ws2_32.dll	Windows Socket 2.0 32-Bit DLL	98
version.dll	Version Checking and File Installation Libraries	80
crypt32.dll	Crypto API32	74
atl.dll	ATL Module for Windows XP (Unicode)	71
msvcp60.dll	Microsoft (R) C++ Runtime Library	69
comctl32.dll	Common Controls Library	66
winmm.dll	MCI API DLL	61
setupapi.dll	Windows Setup API	59
rtutils.dll	Routing Utilities	53
secur32.dll	Security Support Provider Interface	49
userenv.dll	Userenv	43
wininet.dll	Internet Extensions for Win32	39
iphlpapi.dll	IP Helper API	34