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Dll's opening with another program

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by frazzled36

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I'm running windows Me and I noticed that all my dll files open with my pctv program that I have installed. All my applications work but I was wondering why they don't open with there own application? On other computers I notice that their dll filessay in the "open with" area- unknown application. Should I just leave it alone or is there a way to change this?

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by thechas

DLL files are Dynamic Linked Libraries.

The y are accesses and opened by numerous programs, and the Windows operating system.

Your PCTV program may have a viewer that allows you to see the contents of DLL files, or may use a media format that someone used the .DLL extension for.

I would leave things alone if everything is working correctly.

Chas

by opatzg9

Chas hit it on the head. The biggest problem with windows is its' relience on .dll files and the programmers wants to load them into the windows directory structure rather than their application thus overwriting whatever another application may have needed. .dll are programs which continue the process of a .exe or .com program. Don't ever edit them, viewing should not cause any problems. You do have the option to remove the ability to open with. I'll look into that a little more, I know I've done it with win 98 but I may have used a program called tweakui to do so which is one of those MS help utilities which they don't publish nor provide support and hold themselves legally not responsible for any damage it may cause type of utilities.
Hope this helps.

by frazzled36

Thanks guys for your answers! Since all my programs are running fine I will leave everything alone even though I would rather see my programs open up with their own .dll's! I will not change anything,I guess its just something I have to live with!

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