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April 30, 2007 at 02:21 PM
wolfticket2003

Is deleting .dll files safe?

by wolfticket2003 . Updated 19 years, 1 month ago

I recently uninstalled Realplayer from an old Dell pc (pent. III running Win-98)
due to the application’s constant requests for a license before playing music from CDs I had purchased and uploaded into it..it seems that after installing XP Pro onto the same machine, my entire music library became unusable with Realplayer. (i followed their support instructions, but I never made a back-up of the file license.)
THE PROBLEM:
I wanted to do a clean install of the player which I DO like, but after deleting the folder/files, there are still 2 files which I’m being WARNED not to delete, or my PC will fail.
These two are below:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Codecs
C:\PROGRA~1\Rhapsody\Update

Finally the question:
What will ahppen if I delete these files, both of which are .dll as displayed below?

ddnt3260.dll
dnet3260.dll

Don’t want to disable any operating files, processes, or necessary applications because of my ignorance..,all help appreciated.
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