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| Thread ID: 109768 | 2010-05-22 03:34:00 | Removing surplus dll files | advena (13666) | Press F1 |
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| 887122 | 2010-05-22 03:34:00 | There seem to be a surplus of dll files in my system. I had a little utility programme a while back which ran a check on these and removed any that were unused but that utility has gone from my system in the latest revamp. Can anyone suggest a similar easy to use utility (hopefully free) that would do that task for me? Many thanks. |
advena (13666) | ||
| 887123 | 2010-05-22 03:45:00 | Just leave them there. Delete the wrong ones, something will fail | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 887124 | 2010-05-22 04:56:00 | If you want a cleaning utility, CCleaner (www.piriform.com) is quite good, but as Speedy says be careful with dlls. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 887125 | 2010-05-22 05:56:00 | Dll Orphans will find and list unused dlls and delete registry entries, I run this periodically in Windows XP. camtech2000.net |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 887126 | 2010-05-26 06:10:00 | Just leave them there. Delete the wrong ones, something will fail There's 10,700 of them Speedy - I'm sure they're not all necessary, surely. |
advena (13666) | ||
| 887127 | 2010-05-26 10:46:00 | There's 10,700 of them Speedy - I'm sure they're not all necessary, surely. It depends on how many apps you have installed, how long since you ran something CCleaner/Glary utilities, and how long since you last did a rebuild. For example, my work laptop (XP Pro), which I run quite lean, and clean out regularly (plus rebuild annually) has 4340 .dll's currently. So if you haven't given it a good dungout in a while, accumulating 10,700 would be quite easy. I think you'd be quite shocked at how many .dll's something like Photoshop CS5 or Office Pro 2007 loads on your system ;) |
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