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Welcome to DLL information site for Windows 8.
This site was built by scanning all DLL files located in system32 directory of Windows 8 and creating (with automatic script) a Web page for each DLL with all found infromation.

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 8 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
imageres.dll Windows Image Resource   384
shell32.dll Windows Shell Common Dll   322
wmploc.DLL Windows Media Player Resources   193
netshell.dll Network Connections Shell   165
DDORes.dll Device Category information and resources   132
mmcndmgr.dll MMC Node Manager DLL   129
moricons.dll Windows NT Setup Icon Resources Library   113
ieframe.dll Internet Browser   104
compstui.dll Common Property Sheet User Interface DLL   101
twinui.dll TWINUI   94

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of cursors

Filename Description Number of cursors
user32.dll Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL   32
mshtml.dll Microsoft (R) HTML Viewer   22
msftedit.dll Rich Text Edit Control, v7.5   21
comctl32.dll Common Controls Library   18
riched20.dll Rich Text Edit Control, v3.1   17
WFSR.dll Windows Fax and Scan Resources   15
FXSRESM.dll Microsoft Fax Resource DLL   14
mfc40u.dll MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version   12
mfc42.dll MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version   12
mfc42u.dll MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version   12
 

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of bitmaps

Filename Description Number of bitmaps
ieframe.dll Internet Browser   372
ExplorerFrame.dll ExplorerFrame   263
wmploc.DLL Windows Media Player Resources   261
UIRibbonRes.dll Windows Ribbon Framework Resources   234
twinui.dll TWINUI   92
wdc.dll Performance Monitor   55
UIRibbon.dll Windows Ribbon Framework   43
shell32.dll Windows Shell Common Dll   36
Display.dll Display Control Panel   31
mmcndmgr.dll MMC Node Manager DLL   29
 

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of dialog-boxes

Filename Description Number of dialog-boxes
wmploc.DLL Windows Media Player Resources   117
comres.dll COM+ Resources   109
ieframe.dll Internet Browser   107
shell32.dll Windows Shell Common Dll   100
rasdlg.dll Remote Access Common Dialog API   96
wsecedit.dll Security Configuration UI Module   66
FXSRESM.dll Microsoft Fax Resource DLL   60
cmdial32.dll Microsoft Connection Manager   56
ACCTRES.dll Microsoft Internet Account Manager Resources   50
dmdskres.dll Disk Management Snap-in Resources   49
 

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of string resources

Filename Description Number of strings
getuname.dll Unicode name Dll for UCE   15,979
Winlangdb.dll Windows Bcp47 Language Database   10,085
shell32.dll Windows Shell Common Dll   3,545
wmploc.DLL Windows Media Player Resources   2,920
ieframe.dll Internet Browser   2,477
propsys.dll Microsoft Property System   1,809
msjint40.dll Microsoft Jet Database Engine International DLL   1,424
odbcjt32.dll Microsoft ODBC Desktop Driver Pack 3.5   1,215
FXSRESM.dll Microsoft Fax Resource DLL   1,184
storagewmi.dll WMI Provider for Storage Management   1,172
 

Top 10 DLL files with largest type library

Filename Description Type library size
MSVidCtl.dll ActiveX control for streaming video   256 KB
wmp.dll Windows Media Player   208 KB
srm.dll Microsoft® File Server Resource Manager Common Library   172 KB
msvbvm60.dll Visual Basic Virtual Machine   145 KB
CertEnroll.dll Microsoft® Active Directory Certificate Services Enrollment Client   141 KB
tapi3.dll Microsoft TAPI3   113 KB
comsvcs.dll COM+ Services   106 KB
SRH.dll Screen Reader Helper DLL   102 KB
InkEd.dll Microsoft Tablet PC InkEdit Control   99 KB
msxml3.dll MSXML 3.0   93 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 - msvcrt.dll, is loaded by other 1,674 DLL files in the system32 directory. This statistics is based on static link (import tables) between the DLL files.
Filename Description Number of DLLs
msvcrt.dll Windows NT CRT DLL   1,674
kernel32.dll Windows NT BASE API Client DLL   1,377
ntdll.dll NT Layer DLL   1,090
user32.dll Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL   803
advapi32.dll Advanced Windows 32 Base API   778
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   672
oleaut32.dll   648
ole32.dll Microsoft OLE for Windows   645
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   644
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-1.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   641
api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   622
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   616
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-2-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   614
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   601
rpcrt4.dll Remote Procedure Call Runtime   558
api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   515
api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   512
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   397
api-ms-win-security-base-l1-2-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   395
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-2-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   387
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   377
api-ms-win-core-delayload-l1-1-1.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   340
api-ms-win-core-heap-obsolete-l1-1-0.dll ApiSet Stub DLL   320
shlwapi.dll Shell Light-weight Utility Library   310
gdi32.dll GDI Client DLL   276