Frequently Asked Questions
Updated June 7, 2008
- How do I use these .DLL files?
- What do you do about viruses?!?
- What's this "MD5 Sum"?
- External Resources
- DLLCentral.com
How do I use these .DLL files?
- Good question! So you've downloaded your .DLL file replacement from DLLCentral.com. If you know for sure that the dll error file came from a particular application, we recommend first copying the file to that application's folder. For example, if the broken application is Mozilla Firefox and the error is coming from xul.dll, try placing your freshly downloaded copy of xul.dll in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.
- If that doesn't work, try placing it in the following:
- Place the file to your system directory.
- 95/98/Me - C:\Windows\System
- Win NT / 2000 - C:\WINNT\System32
- Win XP - C:\Windows\System32
- Restart the computer:
Some (but not really many) .DLL files need to be manually "registered".
To register a dll file, follow these steps:- Click on Start and then click on Run.
- Type in the Run field the command: regsvr32 "FileName.dll"
- Press Enter.("filename.dll" represents the name of the specific dll)
Once your dll file is properly installed onto your system, we highly recommend you Run a Free Scan to see how well your registry is now performing.
What do you do about viruses?!?
Just like you, we hope no files are infected! To help you rest easier, and peripherally an element that keeps us a step ahead of similar websites, we run AntiVirus software on the server side. All files have been scanned with Clam AntiVirus, and pretty soon the process will be automated. The virus definitions are automatically updated every night. As a side note, we think that "virii" is a cooler plural for "virus," but apparently "viruses" is the more generally accepted form. If you don't already have virus scanning software on your Windows machine, we recommend Grisoft AVG AntiVirus. They have a free version which does fine, and a more feature-rich version as well.
What's this "MD5 Sum"?
In this case, it's essentially used as a "fingerprint" for the files. If you're really concerned about file integrity, you can calculate the MD5 checksum on your computer after you've downloaded a file and compare it to the one calculated by our system. There is a Windows utility available called MD5summer that can handle that calculation. More technical information on the MD5 hashing function is unsurprisingly available on Wikipedia. More than likely you won't need to worry at all about the MD5 Sum, but we've included that information for those who do.
External Resources
- Wikipedia Entry for Dynamic-link Library - Information from Wikipedia about .DLL files.
- XN Resource Editor - Allows you to extract and modify data such as icons, cursors, images, and sounds from .DLL files (and other file types). Resource Hacker is another such utility.
- Dependency Walker - Scans modules (such as .DLL files), and provides dependency information on them.
- Windows Sysinternals - GREAT collection of utilities.
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Some resources used in the making of this site (and, we think, worth checking out):
- PSPad - Programmer's text editor. If you ask us, it's amoung the best free ones out there (not open source, though).
- PuTTY - Telnet/SSH Client.
- FileZilla - Open source FTP client (they also have a server available for download).
- Firefox, along with the Web Developer Toolbar. It's also being tested in Internet Explorer just 'cause lots of folks still use it.
- IcoFX - Used to create the favicon (the gear image for which, and for the logo, is from the LGPL'd Crystal Clear icon set).
- Winamp - Hey, gotta have some tunes while ya code!