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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 information.

Each DLL information page includes:

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